EF1 tornado in Wayne County, Missouri
Tornado October 24, 2021 · Wayne County, Missouri
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Wayne County → Bollinger County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 400 yards (0.23 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This tornado touched down in the heavily forested county of Wayne, just a few miles north of the community of Shook. Numerous trees were uprooted and snapped. The tornado passed mainly through wooded country during the Wayne County portion of its path. The tornado then crossed into Bollinger County.
The wider storm
The severe weather episode began as a series of supercells and transitioned to a squall line. A supercell thunderstorm produced a strong long-track tornado across southeast Missouri that ended in southwest Perry County. A short EF-1 tornado associated with a squall line struck southern Perry County shortly thereafter. A longer track EF-1 tornado also impacted eastern Wayne County into southern Bollinger County. The storms preceded a strong cold front that trailed south-southwest from a low pressure center over west central Illinois. Dew points ahead of the front were in the lower to mid 60's. Instability was strong enough to support severe storms, given that wind shear was quite strong. Mixed-layer capes were around 1000 j/kg.
Began near Shook (37.0968, -90.3200).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 984604. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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