EF0 tornado in Ray County, Missouri

Tornado October 9, 2018 · Ray County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

4.0 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. 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 brief tornado formed from a low-topped supercell and traveled over mainly farmland, downing a few trees across secondary roadways. This tornado crossed into Caldwell County when it crossed Price Road.

The wider storm

On consecutive afternoons and evenings of October 8 and 9, several mini or low-topped supercells formed across NW Missouri. These storms did not produce much in the way of severe weather, aside from some weak and brief tornadoes. The damage was relegated to powerlines and tree damage.

Began near Knoxville (39.4852, -94.0184).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Nodaway County EF0 Sullivan County EF0 Grundy County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790231. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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