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F0 tornado in St. Clair County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · St. Clair County, Missouri

Rating

38.0 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$1.6M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Vernon County → Cedar County → St. Clair County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 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

This tornado is a continuation of the Cedar County tornado. The tornado weakened to F-1 status as it tracked across a portion of southern St. Clair County. Four stuctures were damaged and one house was destroyed. Most of the damage was to trees along with a few power lines.

Began near Roscoe (37.8833, -93.8167).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493640. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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