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EF1 tornado in Howell County, Missouri

Tornado May 30, 2013 · Howell County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

4.3 mi

Path length

400 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 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

A tornado uprooted numerous trees along its 4 mile path. Several bales of hay were picked up and thrown. An outbuilding was destroyed near a dairy farm. The width of the path was estimated about a quarter of a mile wide. Estimated maximum winds were up to 100 mph.

The wider storm

A slow moving trough across the central portions of the country helped develop several rounds of severe thunderstorms and flash flooding across the Missouri Ozarks.

Began near Olden (36.8588, -92.0101).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 444497. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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