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F2 tornado in Henry County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Henry County, Missouri

Rating

26.0 mi

Whole path

450 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$580K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 450 yards (0.26 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 Henry county at 2007 CST from Cass county. The tornado produced occasional F2 damage before dissipating 3 miles east southeast of Blairstown at 2025 CST. There was one fatality where a man died after the house was destroyed.

Began near Urich (38.4667, -94.0667).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F1 Henry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5498975. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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