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EF0 tornado in Grundy County, Missouri

Tornado October 9, 2018 · Grundy County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
25 yd
Path width
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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 brief tornado occurred and caused some very minor tree damage.

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 Spickard (40.2414, -93.6386).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Nodaway CountyEF0 Sullivan CountyEF0 Ray County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 790233. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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