EF0 tornado in Franklin County, Missouri

Tornado May 21, 2019 · Franklin County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

5.9 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Franklin County → St. Charles 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 tornado developed about 1 mile west of Labadie in Franklin County, causing some tree damage and then moved north-northeast across the Missouri River in St. Charles County. The tornado was rated EF0 in Franklin County with a path length of 1.94 miles and a max path width of 50 yards. No deaths or injuries were reported.

The wider storm

A QLCS moved through the region producing damaging winds and a few tornadoes.

Began near Boles (38.5319, -90.8934).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF1 Callaway County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 827852. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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