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F0 tornado in Newton County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Newton County, Missouri

Rating

7.1 mi

Whole path

15 yd

Path width

Injury

$210K

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 15 yards (0.01 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

From the same supercell thunderstorm that produced the F-1 tornado across rural southwest Newton County, a weak tornado briefly touched down in a neighborhood on the western edge of Neosho. One house sustained significant roof damage.

Began near Neosho (36.8667, -94.3667).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493643. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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