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F0 tornado in Pettis County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Pettis County, Missouri

Rating

28.0 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

F0 tornado touched down at 1549 CST 4 miles northeast of La Monte and traveled northeast over rural areas...with damage only to trees. The tornado crossed into Cooper county 2 miles northeast of Postal at 1604 CST.

Began near La Monte (38.8167, -93.3833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

5 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F2 Pettis County 1 dead F2 Pettis County F2 Pettis County F1 Pettis County F0 Pettis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5497826. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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