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EF0 tornado in Vernon County, Missouri

Tornado August 19, 2018 · Vernon County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.1 mi
Path length
50 yd
Path width
$5K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. 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 National Weather Service survey determined that an EF-0 tornado struck a barn resulting in damage to the roof.

The wider storm

August 19-20'a rapidly deepening low pressure system tracked from south central Kansas to southwest Iowa. Unseasonably strong wind shear led to the development of severe storms with heavy rainfall across southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri during the late afternoon and evening hours of the 19th . Several EF-0 and two EF-1 tornadoes developed with these storms over Barton, Vernon, Barry and Webster Counties. Rainfall accumulations averaged between one half inch and one inch, with isolated amounts up to three inches over Wright and Barton Counties.

Began near Montevallo (37.6600, -94.0800).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Vernon CountyEF1 Barry CountyEF0 Barton CountyEF0 Newton CountyEF0 Barton CountyEF0 Webster CountyEF0 Barton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 780774. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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