Tornado, Clark
- When
- April 7, 3:20 PM CST to 3:25 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County, Wayland to 1 mi S of Wayland
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 40.380, -91.600
Tornado in Missouri, April 7, 1998
A small tornado caused damage in the Wayland vicinity. A vacant mobile home was flipped over, and 2 machine sheds and a barn destroyed.
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
- $50,000
- 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 LSX wrote it up.
A small tornado caused damage in the Wayland vicinity. A vacant mobile home was flipped over, and 2 machine sheds and a barn destroyed. Trees and power lines were also downed.
The radar
The Quad Cities radar (KDVN), 161 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:26 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.
The same day elsewhere
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- Hail in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 7 to 27, 1998
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Flooding in Iowa, April 7 to 12, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, April 7, 1998
- Flash Flood in Puerto Rico, April 7, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Illinois, April 7, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, April 7, 1998
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1998Warnings in Missouri, April 1998
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: 5636723.