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EF0 tornado in Dallas County, Missouri

Tornado May 17, 2015 · Dallas County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.1 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A NWS storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado briefly touched down in rural Dallas County. A detached garage was separated from the foundation and blown 5 feet to the west. A large sliding door from a shop was peeled off and thrown approximately 80 yards to the northeast. Approximately 7 trees were snapped around the farm. Several shingles were peeled off a home.

The wider storm

A strong upper level system moved through the Midwest region and produced a squall line of thunderstorms across the Missouri Ozarks. This squall line of storms produced numerous reports of wind damage and a few weak tornadoes.

Began near Wood Hill (37.7952, -93.0516).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Newton County EF1 Lawrence County EF0 Polk County EF0 Polk County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 567109. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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