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EF1 tornado in Newton County, Missouri

Tornado October 11, 2021 · Newton County, Missouri

EF1

Rating

3.3 mi

Path length

90 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 90 yards (0.05 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 determined that an EF-1 tornado touched down along Highway AA and tracked to the north along a parallel path of I-48 for 3.4 miles. The tornado had top windspeeds of 90 mph and a maximum path width of 100 yards. Along its path the tornado forced a manufactured home off its foundation, collapsed the doors of a large farm building and snapped or uprooted several trees.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms developed over Oklahoma and Kansas during the afternoon of the 10th and moved eastward into southeast Kansas and southwest Missouri from the late evening of the 10th to the late morning of the 11th. Two tornadoes touched down across extreme southwest Missouri during the early morning of the 11th. An EF-1 tornado occurred over southern Newton County near Goodman, and an EF-0 tornado occurred near Dudenville, along the Jasper and Barton County Line. Damage was reported to large trees, power lines, a barn and a manufactured home.

Began near Mc Elhany (36.7894, -94.4301).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Jasper County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 984810. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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