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F0 tornado in Laclede County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Laclede County, Missouri

Rating

32.0 mi

Whole path

35 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 35 yards (0.02 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 Wright County tornado that crossed into Laclede County near the community of Competition. The tornado left a three mile swath of damage across rural southeast Laclede County damaging six homes and destroying none. This long tracked tornado finally lifted three miles northeast of Competition.

Began near Competition (37.4833, -92.4333).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493745. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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