EF0 tornado in Douglas County, Missouri

Tornado April 30, 2019 · Douglas County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Christian County → Douglas 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

This is the continuation of the tornado that touched down and tracked from near Guffy Creek in extreme eastern Christian County, and tracked into western Douglas County. A National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 touched down near Guffy Creek in extreme eastern Christian County, and tracked into western Douglas County. This tornado was observed by a local resident along County Road 447 and presented a TDS on radar. Numerous trees were damaged or uprooted as the tornado tracked east and lifted just west of County Road 461A southwest of Merritt.

The wider storm

Very moist and unstable conditions developed over the Missouri Ozarks ahead of an intense low pressure system over the southern Plains. Widespread severe storms developed over Oklahoma and eastern Kansas during the early morning hours and tracked eastward into the Springfield county warning area during the afternoon and evening. Very heavy rainfall, hail to tennis ball size, damaging winds in excess of 70 mph and 27 tornadoes occurred with this system as storms tracked repeatedly over the region. Four injuries were reported as a result of severe storms. One injury was near Mountain Grove and three were in southeastern Greene County were an EF-2 Tornado tracked. The resulting rainfall led to widespread flash flooding, which continued into the morning of May 1st, on head water streams and low water crossings. One live was lost when a camper along Hunter Creek in Douglas County drowned as the campground flooded.

Began near Merritt (36.8947, -92.9069).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 817238. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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