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F3 tornado in Platte County, Missouri

Tornado May 29, 2004 · Platte County, Missouri

F3
Rating
7.0 mi
Whole path
400 yd
Path width
$30K
Damage as recorded

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

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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 F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

Tornado crossed into Buchanan county 5 northwest of Camden Point. Tornado destroyed a barn, and threw an axle from a heavy truck nearly 300 yards.

Began near Camden Pt (39.4667, -94.8000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F4 De Kalb County 3 deadF4 Harrison CountyF4 Daviess CountyF2 De Kalb CountyF1 De Kalb CountyF1 Clinton CountyF0 De Kalb CountyF0 De Kalb CountyF0 Grundy CountyF0 Harrison CountyF0 Buchanan CountyF0 Clinton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5400200. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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