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F3 tornado in Webster County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Webster County, Missouri

F3
Rating
32.0 mi
Whole path
200 yd
Path width
$530K
Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Webster County → Wright County → Laclede 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.

The wider storm

This tornado was spawned from the same cyclic supercell that produced a tornado across Lawrence, Christian, and Greene counties. A large tornado touched down northwest of Fordland and lifted approximately 7 miles north of Diggins in rural central Webster County. While this initial tornado was dissipating, a second tornado was in the process of forming, eventually touching down six miles north of Diggins, and tracking into Wright County. The two tornadoes were responsible for 13 injuries while damaging 48 structures and destroying 17.

Began near Diggins (37.2500, -92.8667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Webster County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493742. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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