Tornado, Polk
- When
- February 25, 2:00 PM CST to 2:05 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County, 1 mi W of Polk
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $60,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 37.733, -93.333
Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 2000
An F0 tornado produced a 100 yard intermittent damage path from one mile west to one mile north of Polk. The tornado downed trees and destroyed five outbuildings.
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
- $60,000
- 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 produced a 100 yard intermittent damage path from one mile west to one mile north of Polk. The tornado downed trees and destroyed five outbuildings. Two other barns sustained major damage and two homes received minor damage.
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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, February 25 to 26, 2000
- Tornado in Missouri, February 25, 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
- 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: 5133194.