Tornado, Hickory
- When
- February 25, 2:20 PM CST to 2:25 PM CST
- Where
- Hickory County, 3 mi SE of Preston
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 37.900, -93.200
Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
An F1 tornado, with an intermittent 100 yard wide damage path, touched down 3 miles southeast of Preston, MO. The tornado traveled rapidly northeast and lifted 4 miles northeast of Preston.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $500,000
- 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 F1 tornado, with an intermittent 100 yard wide damage path, touched down 3 miles southeast of Preston, MO. The tornado traveled rapidly northeast and lifted 4 miles northeast of Preston. The roof to the Skyline Elementary School was damaged. Most of the school's bus maintenance building either blew away or collapsed. Debris damaged three vehicles nearby. The bus maintenance communication tower was severely damaged. Two nearby homes were damaged and numerous outbuildings were destroyed.Even though school was in session when the tornado hit, there were no injuries reported. Advanced warning allowed the school to activate their emergency storm plan. Children and school officials took shelter in interior hallways.Two persons in the bus maintenance shed took shelter in a framed office within the interior of the large shed and were also uninjured.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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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- Winter Storm in Wyoming, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, February 25, 2000
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, February 25, 2000
- High Wind in Wyoming, February 25 to 27, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
- Winter Storm in Nebraska, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Excessive Heat in West Virginia, February 25, 2000
- Winter Storm in North Dakota, February 25, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, February 25, 2000
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, February 25, 2000
More
Every storm in Missouri in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 2000Warnings in Missouri, February 2000
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: 5133105.