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EF1 tornado in Webster County, Missouri

Tornado January 7, 2008 · Webster County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

5.2 mi

Whole path

150 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in rural northwest Webster County and tracked into southern Dallas County. The tornado damaged one home and several outbuildings.

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 Beach (37.4409, -92.9631).

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 73709. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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