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EF0 tornado in Greene County, Missouri

Tornado May 8, 2009 · Greene County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
3.5 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$100K
Damage as recorded
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado touched down near the intersection of Highway 13 and Highway WW. The tornado tracked to the northeast over an intermittent path prior to lifting near the intersection of Highway H and Farm Road 148. The tornado damaged several outbuildings and trees along its path.

The wider storm

An intense squall line impacted extreme southeast Kansas and the Missouri Ozarks with mainly damaging winds. However, 19 tornadoes along with large hail was also observed. Due to the straight line nature of the winds, damage was widespread and intense.

Began near Ebenezer (37.3339, -93.3275).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 170109. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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