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F3 tornado in Hickory County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Hickory County, Missouri

Rating

17.0 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

Injuries

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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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 large tornado touched down over rural southwest Hickory County and tracked near the Pomme De Terre lake damn. The tornado eventually tore through an intersection known as Carsons Corner causing signficant structural damage along with 19 injuries.

Began near Hermitage (37.8500, -93.4333).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493710. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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