F2 tornado — Monroe County, Missouri

F2 tornado in Monroe County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Monroe County, Missouri

Rating

48.7 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

Deaths

Injuries

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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

The tornado that hit Randolph County continued northeast into Monroe County southwest of Middle Grove. The tornado moved through rural areas damaging farm structures and trees. The tornado continued northeast causing tree damage to near Madison. Two miles south of Madison a mobile home was destroyed and a two story home was damaged. The damage was rated F2 at this location. The tornado destroyed another mobile home 2 miles southeast of Madison before dissipating. As this tornado dissipated, another formed just to the southeast.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5495408. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

F2 tornado in Monroe County, Missouri

What the National Weather Service wrote

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