EF1 tornado in McDonald County, Missouri
Tornado January 7, 2008 · McDonald County, Missouri
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through McDonald County → Barry County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in rural southeast McDonald County, and tracked northeast into rural southwest Barry County. Numerous trees and a few structures were heavily damaged or destroyed.
The wider storm
An unusual mid winter tornado outbreak occurred over southwest and central Missouri. 31 tornadoes struck the region within a 15 hour time frame on 7 January into early morning 8 January. Two tornadoes intensified to EF-3 status while five tornadoes caused EF-2 damage. All other tornadoes during this outbreak were surveyed and given EF-0 and EF-1 status. Multiple training supercells spawned most of these tornadoes that occurred along the Interstate 44 corridor. Toward the end of this episode, a broken squall line spawned numerous EF-0 and EF-1 tornadoes across the southern Missouri Ozarks.
Began near Mountain (36.5165, -94.1439).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
31 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 72548. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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