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EF0 tornado in Monroe County, Missouri

Tornado October 17, 2007 · Monroe County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
4.0 mi
Path length
40 yd
Path width
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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

The tornado initially touched down at a farmstead near the intersection of Highway 151 and Highway M. A machine shed and several trees were damaged. A corn field to the north was flattened by the tornado as well. The tornado moved northeast causing minor damage to a second machine shed near the intersection of CR 85 and CR 99. It then crossed CR 82 damaging a barn and several more trees. The tornado lifted and dissipated about a quarter of a mile northwest of the intersection of CR 82 and CR 81.

The wider storm

Elevated convection developed north of a warm frontal boundary that extended from just southwest of Kansas City to just south of Columbia then into southern Illinois near Sparta. Numerous reports of wind damage were received as well as 4 tornadoes.

Began near Tulip (39.3743, -92.2107).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Monroe County 2 deadEF0 Monroe CountyEF0 Callaway County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 63955. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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