F0 tornado in Pike County, Missouri

Tornado March 13, 2006 · Pike County, Missouri

Rating

14.0 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pike County → Calhoun County, Illinois; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado that originally formed in Montgomery County north of Bellflower and moved across northern Lincoln County, continued east northeast into Pike County crossing the border just south of Woodson Knob Hill. The tornado ran parallel to Saltpeter Bluff traveling across farmland occasionally causing tree damage. The tornado crossed Highway 79 south southeast of Annada about 1:51 am CST and continued across the Mississippi River into Calhoun County, IL.

Began near Annada (39.2333, -90.7833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Montgomery County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5495487. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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