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EF0 tornado in Callaway County, Missouri

Tornado October 17, 2007 · Callaway County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

30 yd

Path width

$50K

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 tornado touched down and damaged a horse stable, double wide mobile home, trees and a large garage near CR 264. It briefly travelled to the northeast damaging additional trees 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 Hatton (39.0093, -92.0102).

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 Monroe County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 63965. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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