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EF1 tornado in Scotland County, Missouri

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Scotland County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

0.2 mi

Whole path

40 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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

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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 EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 brief EF-1 tornado with winds of 90 MPH moved from Knox County into Scotland County. The tornado caused damage mainly to trees. As the tornado neared its end, a manufactured home was blown off its foundation blocks and destroyed. A door on a nearby barn was also ripped off. The tornado was on the ground 0.2 miles with a maximum width of 40 yards.

The wider storm

A storm system moved along the Iowa and Missouri border during the evening of the 27th and brought scattered severe thunderstorms that moved across Scotland and Clark Counties in northeast Missouri. These storms brought mainly hail up to the size of quarters, and heavy rain between 1 to 2 inches. Two brief tornadoes were also reported. One of these tornadoes was an EF-1 with maximum winds of 90 MPH that from Knox County into southern Scotland County. The second brief tornado occurred near the town of Granger and was rated EF-0 with a maximum winds of 80 MPH.

Began near Spillman Mound (40.3037, -92.2396).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Scotland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 630813. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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