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EF1 tornado in Newton County, Missouri

Tornado September 1, 2014 · Newton County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

4.9 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Newton County → Newton 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 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 NWS storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down near Reinmiller Road and tracked southeast to Cedar Drive. Numerous trees were either uprooted or snapped with some trees thrown as far as 200 yards. At least one mobile home was severely damaged with a tree that fell through the home. The estimated maximum winds were up to 94 mph.

The wider storm

A cold front moving into the area produced severe thunderstorms with damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes.

Began near Saginaw (37.0272, -94.4483).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 532297. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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