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EF1 tornado in Dent County, Missouri

Tornado May 19, 2025 · Dent County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

6.4 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A NWS storm survey determined that a short lived EF-1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 90 mph damaged a barn and uprooted trees along and east of Highway Z to the west of Custer.

The wider storm

A strong storm system pushed into the area during the afternoon of May 19, 2025 and persisted into the evening and overnight hours. This system produced 8 tornadoes across the area, along with widespread wind damage and between 1 and 5 inches of rainfall. The intense rainfall led to some localized flash flooding, areal flooding and river flooding.

Began near New Hope (37.5300, -91.5600).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 St. Clair County EF1 Benton County EF0 Dent County EF0 Dent County EF0 Dent County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1261090. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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