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EF0 tornado in St. Charles County, Missouri

Tornado April 26, 2016 · St. Charles County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

0.3 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 weak EF-0 tornado briefly touched down just south of the intersection of Highway D and Highway T, roughly 4 miles west-southwest of New Melle. Trees were topped and twisted and metal roofing from a large outbuilding was thrown up to 200 yard to the north of the tornado path. The path length was 0.32 miles and max path width was 50 yards.

The wider storm

A cold front dropped south across forecast area triggering showers and thunderstorms. Some of the storms produced large hail, damaging winds and a couple of tornadoes.

Began near Cappeln (38.6822, -90.9558).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Warren County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 640269. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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