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EF0 tornado in Stoddard County, Missouri

Tornado March 9, 2017 · Stoddard County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.7 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$20K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

This weak tornado was produced by the same storm that caused other tornadoes both due west and east of this track on the evening of March 9. Several trees and tree limbs were blown down. Two grain bins were blown in on one side. This short track was along Highway Z in southeast Stoddard County. Peak winds were estimated near 80 mph.

The wider storm

A cluster of severe thunderstorms over south central Missouri organized into a bowing line of storms as it tracked eastward during the evening. An embedded supercell within the line spawned several tornadoes along an east-west corridor from Ripley County eastward to New Madrid County. A couple of significant tornadoes and damaging wind events accompanied this line, along with large hail. The storms developed along and just ahead of a cold front as it pressed southward into the Lower Ohio Valley and extreme southeast Missouri.

Began near La Valle (36.6715, -89.7598).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Ripley CountyEF2 New Madrid CountyEF1 Butler CountyEF1 Stoddard CountyEF1 Butler CountyEF1 Stoddard CountyEF1 New Madrid County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 683953. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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