EF0 tornado in Bates County, Missouri

Tornado June 4, 2020 · Bates County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

1.8 mi

Whole path

40 yd

Path width

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

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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

This is a continuation of the brief QLCS mesovortex tornado that formed within an overnight squall line in rural Cass County. This tornado did damage to trees and structures as it moved into far northern Bates County, with the most significant damage occurring in Archie where a large tree fell into a house.

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 Crescent Hill (38.4719, -94.3316).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Jackson County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 896594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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