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EF3 tornado in Greene County, Missouri

Tornado January 7, 2008 · Greene County, Missouri

EF3
Rating
5.1 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
1
Death
$1.0M
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF3 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF3 is severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, consistent with estimated gusts of 136–165 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-3 tornado tracked across rural east central Greene County causing extensive damage to homes and outbuildings north of Strafford. An 84 year old female was killed when her wood constructed home was destroyed by the tornado. The tornado continued into Webster County.

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 Mulroy (37.2754, -93.1644).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Webster County 2 deadEF3 Pulaski CountyEF2 Barry CountyEF2 Greene CountyEF2 Laclede CountyEF2 Greene CountyEF1 McDonald CountyEF1 Barry CountyEF1 Barry CountyEF1 Greene CountyEF1 Christian CountyEF1 Christian CountyEF1 Webster CountyEF1 Douglas CountyEF1 Wright CountyEF1 Shannon CountyEF1 Shannon CountyEF1 Phelps CountyEF0 McDonald CountyEF0 Barry CountyEF0 Lawrence CountyEF0 St. Clair CountyEF0 Taney CountyEF0 Webster CountyEF0 Douglas CountyEF0 Howell CountyEF0 Oregon CountyEF0 Maries CountyEF0 Benton CountyEF0 Webster Countyand 1 more

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 73744. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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