EF0 tornado in Stone County, Missouri
Tornado December 31, 2010 · Stone County, Missouri
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Carroll County, Arkansas → Stone County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
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 the National Weather Service wrote
An EF-0 tornado touched down in Carrol County, Arkansas and moved into Stone County, Missouri. This tornado caused damage near an open field southwest of the intersection of Highway 86 and Highway 13 north of Blue Eye. The tornado knocked down several trees while destroying a carport at a residence. The tornado lifted as it was crossing Highway 13. The peak wind speeds were estimated at 65 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 Blue Eye (36.4988, -93.4131).
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 267573. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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