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F1 tornado in Livingston County, Missouri

Tornado May 24, 2004 · Livingston County, Missouri

Rating

9.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$1.7M

Damage as recorded

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A tornado struck just south of Chillicothe where highway 65 crosses Shoal Creek, east-northeast to approximately 3 miles east of Chillicothe. Isolated areas of F1 magnitude tornado damage were observed, especially along CR255. Widespread straight-line wind damage also noted along the path of this tornado. Witnesses described seeing what appeared to be a 6-mile wide lowering with intermittent vortices touching the ground.

Began near Chillicothe (39.5167, -94.7833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Gentry County F1 Holt County F1 Linn County F1 Macon County F0 Harrison County F0 Harrison County F0 Nodaway County F0 Worth County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5400139. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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