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EF0 tornado in Jackson County, Missouri

Tornado June 4, 2020 · Jackson County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

5.7 mi

Path length

40 yd

Path width

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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 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 strong QLCS came through the Kansas City metro during the early morning hours on June 4. This QLCS produced a brief tornado in the Lake Lotawana area. The damage from this QLCS mesovortex tornado was minor.

The wider storm

Two rounds of severe storms came through the Kansas City metro area on back to back nights, both taking place late in the evening and lasting through the overnight hours. Both events were nearly identical in evolution, with a strong QLCS each night producing scattered wind damage. The June 4 QLCS produced a couple weak and brief EF-0 tornadoes that did some minor damage.

Began near Lake Tapawingo (39.0036, -94.3240).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Cass County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 896592. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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