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EF0 tornado in Newton County, Missouri

Tornado April 4, 2017 · Newton County, Missouri

EF0

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 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

An EF-2 tornado crossed into Newton County from McDonald County which tracked southeast of Neosho. Numerous homes and buildings were damaged. The tornado 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 Mc Elhany (36.7592, -94.3784).

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 689747. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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