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F0 tornado in Saline County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Saline County, Missouri

Rating

41.4 mi

Whole path

100 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 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

Satellite tornado developed south of the 2028-2046 CST tornado, then merged with that tornado 2045 CST near the Missouri River. Eyewitness accounts described this merger as visually similar to the 3/13/90 Hesston, Kansas tornado.

Began near Nelson (39.0500, -93.0833).

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 5498027. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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