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F1 tornado in Jasper County, Missouri

Tornado June 28, 1999 · Jasper County, Missouri

F1
Rating
0.2 mi
Path length
40 yd
Path width
$220K
Damage as recorded
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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What F1 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F1 meant moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken; the scale paired it with winds of 73–112 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.

The wider storm

A tornado briefly touched down in the south part of the city of Joplin. The tornado picked up a car and a small truck. The car was thrown into a strip mall complex damaging a corner of the building. The truck was pushed into a portion of a car wash. The car wash sustained damage to about 60 percent of the facility. Two large concrete bases for the vacuum equipment were picked up or rolled about 10 feet from their original location. The tornado also uprooted trees, blew a metal shed into a tree, completely took the roof off of one home and toppled a chimney.

Began near Joplin (37.0800, -94.5200).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5706820. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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