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EF2 tornado in Dallas County, Missouri

Tornado February 28, 2012 – February 29, 2012 · Dallas County, Missouri

EF2
Rating
9.5 mi
Whole path
100 yd
Path width
1
Death
12
Injuries
$650K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Polk County → Dallas County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

This is a continuation of the EF-2 rated tornado that touched down in Polk County at 23:58 and moved into Dallas County from one mile north northwest of Foose to two miles east of Buffalo. In Dallas County, two frame home and six mobile homes were damaged or destroyed, three turkey barns were damaged along Wildlife Road and numerous power poles and trees were downed. One fatality occurred in a mobile home.

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 Foose (37.5536, -93.1831).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 364186. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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