EF0 tornado in Newton County, Missouri
Tornado August 19, 2018 · Newton County, Missouri
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 40 yards (0.02 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 determined an EF-0 tornado touched down over rural NE Newton County, destroying an outbuilding and a grain bin, along with damaging numerous trees. The time was estimated from radar.
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 Ritchey (37.0100, -94.1700).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 780781. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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