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EF0 tornado in Dent County, Missouri

Tornado May 19, 2025 · Dent County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.9 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$25K

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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 small EF-0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 mph developed southwest of Highway EE and traveled northeast towards the Meramec River. Trees were snapped and uprooted in the valley and a barn was damaged.

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 Max (37.6027, -91.4163).

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 EF1 Dent County EF0 Dent County EF0 Dent County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1261091. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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