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EF1 tornado in Douglas County, Missouri

Tornado January 8, 2008 · Douglas County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

2.2 mi

Path length

75 yd

Path width

$125K

Damage as recorded

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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 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 impacted rural areas of northeast Douglas County. This tornado caused significant tree damage and moved a mobile home from its foundation.

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 Drury (37.0375, -92.3658).

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 73776. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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