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EF0 tornado in Polk County, Missouri

Tornado December 31, 2010 · Polk County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
1.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 survry team determined that an EF-0 tornado briefly touched down and caused an intermittent damage path. The path extended from near the intersection of Country Roads 155 and 430 to near the intersection of County Roads 170 and 420. The damage from this tornado was sparse due to its weak intensity and it tracked mainly across open fields. Three structures suffered minor damage, including a portion of a roof removed from one home.

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 Burns (37.6310, -93.3362).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Phelps County 2 deadEF3 Pulaski CountyEF1 Dent County 2 deadEF1 Stone CountyEF1 Christian CountyEF0 Stone CountyEF0 Stone CountyEF0 Carroll CountyEF0 Webster County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 267574. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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