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F2 tornado in Saline County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Saline County, Missouri

Rating

17.0 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

Injuries

$3.0M

Damage as recorded

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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 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

Tornado crossed into Saline county from Pettis county at 2009 CST. The tornado crossed over Interstate 70 at mile marker 71 at 2012 CST. Six people seeking shelter under a highway overpass were injured. Their cars were crushed when a semi was blown over on top of them. The tornado produced F2 damage just northeast of I-70 where several houses lost their roofs and a church was destroyed. The tornado continued northeast over rural areas and dissipated 3 miles east of Marshall at 2035 CST.

Began near Sweet Spgs (38.9500, -93.3833).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Saline County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498022. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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