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F3 tornado in Lawrence County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Lawrence County, Missouri

Rating

42.0 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$55.6M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 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

A supercell thunderstorm that produced a tornado in Newton County, spawned a large tornado in Lawrence County approximately one mile north of Verona. The tornado damaged 46 structures and destroyed 21. One fatality occurred from flying debris striking an elderly man in his frame home north of Marionville. This tornado basically followed a similar path that another F-3 tornado tracked along during the 4 May 2003 tornado outbreak.

Began near Verona (36.9833, -93.8000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493709. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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