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EF2 tornado in McDonald County, Missouri

Tornado April 4, 2017 · McDonald County, Missouri

EF2

Rating

16.5 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$1.1M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through McDonald County → Newton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

An EF-2 tornado hit the town of Goodman in McDonald County and continued northeastward into southern Newton County southeast of Neosho. Numerous homes and buildings were damaged. The school in Goodman was destroyed. The tornado started southwest of Goodman and ended on the southwest side of Granby.

The wider storm

A strong storm system and cold front produced supercells across the Missouri Ozark with damaging winds and large hail. The were a couple damaging tornadoes.

Began near Goodman (36.7197, -94.4324).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Barry County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 689717. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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