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EF0 tornado in Howell County, Missouri

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Howell County, Missouri

EF0
Rating
0.0 mi
Path length
20 yd
Path width
$10K
Damage as recorded
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 National Weather Service storm survey revealed that an EF-0 tornado touched down in South Fork. A barn housing a camping unit was destroyed.

The wider storm

Eleven tornadoes and significant flash flooding occurred in response to several clusters of thunderstorms impacting the Missouri Ozarks. The ground was saturated from record rainfall in both the months of February and March.

Began near South Fork (36.6274, -91.9617).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Dallas CountyEF2 Laclede CountyEF1 Ottawa CountyEF0 Lawrence CountyEF0 Cedar CountyEF0 Ozark CountyEF0 Newton CountyEF0 Hickory CountyEF0 Polk CountyEF0 Vernon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 89910. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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