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F2 tornado in Pettis County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Pettis County, Missouri

Rating

12.2 mi

Whole path

500 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$2.5M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 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

F2 tornado touched down 6.5 miles east of Green Ridge at 1612 CST and moved northeast. The tornado caused the death of one woman...when the trailer she was fleeing was blown on top of her. Another 6 people were injured as well. Numerous homes suffered varying degrees of damage. The tornado lifted one mile southwest of Smithton at 1625 CST.

Began near Green Ridge (38.6167, -93.2833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Pettis County F2 Pettis County F1 Pettis County F0 Pettis County F0 Pettis County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5497828. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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