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EF1 tornado in Ozark County, Missouri

Tornado March 1, 2007 · Ozark County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

15.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

Death

$760K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Ozark County → Howell County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in rural sections of extreme eastern Ozark County. The tornado crossed into Howell County near the community of Caulfield, Missouri. The tornado mainly damaged trees and powerlines in Ozark County, however, produced more significant damage in Howell County.

The wider storm

Several severe thunderstorms impacted southern Missouri during the morning hours of March 1st. A classic supercell moved from northern Arkansas and into Ozark and Howell counties. This storm produced an EF-3 tornado that touched down southwest of Caulfield, Missouri, and tracked to areas southwest of West Plains, Missouri. One fatality occurred from this storm as the tornado ripped through a mobile home in rural Howell County.

Began near Bakersfield (36.5923, -92.1500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 23030. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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