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F3 tornado in Dunklin County, Missouri

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Dunklin County, Missouri

Rating

32.0 mi

Whole path

880 yd

Path width

Deaths

130

Injuries

$61.5M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 880 yards (0.50 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

The tornado tracked east out of Greene County, Arkansas into Dunklin County, Missouri. The tornado then continued east into Pemiscot County, Missouri. Seven homes were destroyed and thirty-three homes were damaged.

Began near Senath (36.1667, -90.1167).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506266. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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