EF1 tornado, Gunn City to Kingsville, Missouri, February 28, 2007

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 mph

   Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 mph

   Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

7. Unrated

   The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Rating

EF1

Date

February 28, 2007

Touchdown

10:05 PM CST (04:05 UTC)

Lifted

10:14 PM CST (04:14 UTC)

On the ground

9 minutes

Path length

6.2 miles (10.0 km)

Path width

50 yards (46 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$50,000

Counties

Cass and Johnson counties

Touchdown point

38.670, -94.151

Lift-off point

38.736, -94.080

Record number

0702282205-01

A strong storm system lifted northeast into the region from Oklahoma, during the late afternoon and early evening hours on February 28th. The dynamics from this storm system provided the lift for rapid thunderstorm development along and north of a warm front by the early evening hours. There were numerous reports of hail with the storms, as well as some flash flooding. ||In addition, two tornadoes were observed. They were associated with a supercell severe thunderstorm, which earlier had produced an EF4 tornado in Linn county Kansas. The first EF1 tornado was observed in Bates county between Amsterdam and Adrian and moved northeast. Damage was to one structure with telephone poles down as well. The second EF1 tornado was near Blairstown in Henry county, over open country.

Tornado touched down at 10:05 PM CST, 1 mile east of Gunn City. The EF1 tornado destroyed a moble home before exiting the county into Johnson county at 10:06 PM CST, 2 miles east northeast of Gunn City.

Tornado crossed from Cass county into Johnson county at 10:06 PM CST, 6 miles south southwest of Kingsville. The tornado produced damage to 2 homes and one garage as it moved northeast. The tornado lifted 1 mile south of Kingsville at 10:14 PM CST.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

47 minutes of warning. NWS EAX issued a tornado warning for this county at 03:18 UTC, 47 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:15 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 01:10 UTC and running to 07:47 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Moderate Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 00:56 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Pleasant Hill radar (KEAX), 18 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:05 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2007 tornado in MissouriEvery tornado in Missouri since 1950Warnings in force in Missouri nowThe forecast where you are

9 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.