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F3 tornado in Saline County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Saline County, Missouri

F3
Rating
41.4 mi
Whole path
350 yd
Path width
$525K
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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 touched down 6 miles south of Marshall at 2028 CST. It traveled east-northeast and for a time paralleled another tornado to the north before the first one occluded. Little damage was noted along the track until it neared the Howard county line. The tornado merged with another tornado near the Missouri River and quickly produced F3 damage to a farmstead. The tornado then entered Howard county 4 miles north of Arrow Rock at 2046 CST.

Began near Marshall (39.0500, -93.2000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F2 Saline County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498026. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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