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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Missouri

Tornado September 1, 2014 · Newton County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$10K

Damage as recorded

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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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 a small EF-0 tornado touched down near Vixen Road and tracked northeast to near Highway 37. A barn along with some trees were damaged. The estimated maximum winds were up to 70 mph.

The wider storm

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

Began near Wentworth (37.0137, -94.1192).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Newton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 532304. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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