EF0 tornado — Scotland County, Missouri

EF0 tornado in Scotland County, Missouri

Tornado April 27, 2016 · Scotland County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$100K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 30 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 trained spotter reported a tornado north of Arbela. A barn and a cattle shed were destroyed along with several other outbuildings in the area. The tornado was on the ground for 0.2 miles and was around 30 yards wide. It was rated EF0 with a peak wind speed of 80 MPH.

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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 630818. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Scotland County, Missouri

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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