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EF1 tornado in Barry County, Missouri

Tornado April 4, 2017 · Barry County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

1.5 mi

Path length

200 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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-1 tornado briefly touched down south of Washburn in rural Barry County. A chicken farm was destroyed and numerous trees were snapped.

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 Washburn (36.5419, -93.9877).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 McDonald County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 689728. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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