Tornado, Webster
- When
- April 21, 10:30 PM CST to 10:35 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County, Seymour to 4 mi SE of Seymour
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -92.780
Tornado in Missouri, April 21, 1996
An F0 tornado touchdown occurred 4 miles south of Seymour. The intermittent damage patch was 2 miles long and 200 feet wide.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS SGF wrote it up.
An F0 tornado touchdown occurred 4 miles south of Seymour. The intermittent damage patch was 2 miles long and 200 feet wide. A four-car garage and a barn were destroyed at a farmer's home located 3 miles south of Highway 60 along Webster County Route 309.
The radar
The Springfield radar (KSGF), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 04:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5551423.