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F0 tornado in Cooper County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Cooper 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 crossed from Pettis county into Cooper county at 1604 CST...3 miles south-southwest of Blackwater. The tornado moved northeast over rural areas...and dissipated 4 miles east-northeast of Blackwater at 1617 CST. The tornado crossed Interstate 70 near mile marker 88 and blew over a tractor trailer. This closed the west bound lanes of I-70 for a time.

Began near Blackwater (38.9500, -93.0000).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Cooper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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