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F3 tornado in Howard County, Missouri

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Howard County, Missouri

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 crossed from Saline county into Howard county...8 miles southwest of Glasgow at 2046 CST. F2 damage was noted to several farmsteads to the northwest of Fayette before the tornado dissipated at 2102 CST...2 miles east of Armstrong.

Began near Glasgow (39.1500, -92.9500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F0 Howard County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5499077. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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