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EF0 tornado in Dent County, Missouri

Tornado May 27, 2017 · Dent County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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

Several pictures from a storm chaser and spotter indicated a brief tornado touched down in a heavily wooded area of rural northwest Dent County. The storm chaser location of the images captured was near Highway 72 and Highway FF looking northwest. The tornado location is estimated. Estimated wind speed and path length could not be exactly determined due to lack of road access.

The wider storm

Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms brought damaging straight-line winds, large hail, tornadoes, and flooding to the Missouri Ozarks from May 27th into the early morning hours of May 28th. Over 130 reports of severe weather and flooding were received from the Missouri Ozarks.

Began near Lake Spg (37.7655, -91.6816).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Laclede CountyEF1 Morgan CountyEF1 Laclede CountyEF1 Laclede CountyEF1 Laclede County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 698431. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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