EF1 tornado in Madison County, Missouri
Tornado May 25, 2011 · Madison County, Missouri
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Madison County → Bollinger County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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
A tornado touched down about a mile and a half south of Marquand on State Highway DD. It travelled to the northeast for about two miles before moving into Bollinger County (WFO Paducah's CWA). It snapped off or uprooted numerous trees along its path in Madison County. At its widest, the tree damage was 200 yards wide. The total path length for the tornado was 13 miles with a max width of 250 yards and a max EF rating of EF1.
The wider storm
Strong area of low pressure moved into the forecast area with a dry line out ahead of the main cold front. Storms fired up along and just ahead of the dry line beginning in the early afternoon hours. There were numerous reports of large hail with isolated damaging winds and tornadoes with this event.
Began near Marquand (37.4094, -90.1676).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 323252. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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