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EF0 tornado in Hickory County, Missouri

Tornado March 31, 2008 · Hickory County, Missouri

EF0

Rating

3.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$25K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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-1 tornado damaged three homes and snapped several trees in rural southern Hickory County.

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 Elkton (37.8299, -93.5005).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Dallas County EF2 Laclede County EF1 Ottawa County EF0 Lawrence County EF0 Cedar County EF0 Ozark County EF0 Newton County EF0 Howell County EF0 Polk County EF0 Vernon County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 89911. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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