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EF0 tornado in Monroe County, Missouri

Tornado October 17, 2007 · Monroe County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.7 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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 tornado touched down just south of the intersection of CR 393 and CR 414. The tornado knocked down a number of trees along its path as it moved to the north and crossed CR 392. The tornado continued to the north and crossed Highway CC, damaging a number of trees and a machine shed just north of the highway before lifting and dissipating.

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 North Fork (39.5942, -91.9807).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Monroe County 2 dead EF0 Monroe County EF0 Callaway County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 63962. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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