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EF0 tornado in Stone County, Missouri

Tornado December 31, 2010 · Stone County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
1.8 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
$750K
Damage as recorded
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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 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

An EF-0 tornado touched down along the southern point of the Indian Point peninsula. The tornado impacted a neighborhood with frame homes prior to damaging the eastern shore ling of the peninsula. Four coves were affected by this tornado damaging approximately six boat docks and four boats . These boat docks had mainly open slips. There was damaged to one boat dock at Rock Lane Resort. The peak wind speeds were estimated at 70 miles per hour.

The wider storm

Between the evening of the 30th and the morning of the 31st, two separate lines of thunderstorms produced significant severe weather across southwest Missouri including damaging wind, large hail, and deadly tornadoes. The first round of storms lifted out of Arkansas late on the evening of the 30th and the second round moved out of western Kansas shortly before daybreak on the 31st.

Began near Notch (36.6160, -93.3498).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 267566. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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