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EF1 tornado in Barton County, Missouri

Tornado February 28, 2012 · Barton County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

16.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$250K

Damage as recorded

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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 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

An EF-1 rated tornado with a maximum wind speed of 85 to 90 mph tracked 16 miles from 5 miles south southeast of Mindenmines to one mile northwest of Lamar crossing Highway 71. The tornado damaged five barns along with uprooting trees and damaging the roof of a farm house and garage. The path width was 200 yards.

The wider storm

A strong system moved across the Midwest and brought a round of severe storms to the Ozarks late on the 28th and early on the 29th of February. A squall line with embedded bows and super cellular type storms produced large hail and very strong damaging winds along with several deadly and destructive tornadoes.

Began near Nashville (37.3908, -94.5557).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Barry County 1 dead EF2 Dallas County 1 dead EF2 Stone County EF1 Dade County EF1 Laclede County EF1 Laclede County EF1 Phelps County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 363338. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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