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EF0 tornado in Gentry County, Missouri

Tornado June 28, 2017 · Gentry County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
16.4 mi
Whole path
75 yd
Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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 weak tornado formed in eastern Gentry County, then moved into Harrison County where it ultimately did some EF-1 damage to some structures in rural Harrison County. The extent of the damage in Gentry County was limited to tree damage in rural areas.

The wider storm

On the evening of June 28 a complex of supercell thunderstorms moved into northern Missouri, producing widespread large hail and damaging winds, mainly north of Interstate 70. These storms also produced at least 3 tornadoes, all north of Highway 36. The strongest damage was located in Harrison County where some low-end EF-1 damage to a residence occurred. Otherwise, the damage was confined to tree damage to rural parts of Harrison, Gentry, and Nodaway Counties. Heavy rain and slow movement of the complex contributed to some flash flooding across northern Missouri. There were no known injuries with this evening's event.

Began near Pinhook (40.2860, -94.3311).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 710677. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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