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EF0 tornado in Greene County, Missouri

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Greene County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

$100K

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 damaged a few homes on the southwest side of Springfield in the town of Battlefield. There was damage to roofs, gutters, and awnings. The tornado was a brief touchdown.

The wider storm

A line of severe thunderstorms produced multiple reports of damaging winds and large hail. There were a couple weak tornadoes which developed as well. There was another round of severe storms a couple days later that produced large hail.

Began near Battlefield (37.1345, -93.3621).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Newton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 625402. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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