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EF0 tornado in Lafayette County, Missouri

Tornado June 17, 2017 · Lafayette County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

4.8 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A tornado formed in western Lafayette County late in the evening of June 17, 2017 just north of Bates City and west of Mayview. This tornado remained mostly over rural portions of Lafayette County and caused mostly minor damage to some residences as well as snapping trunks of a few large trees.

The wider storm

On the afternoons of June 15 through June 17 mulitple rounds of severe storms raked through western and central Missouri causing widespread wind damage and large hail. A tornado occurred in Lafayette County after dark, causing minor damage to rural areas north of Bates City.

Began near Napoleon (39.0678, -94.0939).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 710205. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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