EF0 tornado, Mokane to Hams Prairie, Missouri, March 10, 2010

1. EF065 to 85 mphthis tornado

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

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   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

EF0

Date

March 10, 2010

Touchdown

10:34 PM CST (04:34 UTC)

Lifted

10:35 PM CST (04:35 UTC)

On the ground

1 minutes

Path length

0.8 miles (1.3 km)

Path width

40 yards (37 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Callaway County

Touchdown point

38.664, -91.925

Lift-off point

38.675, -91.922

Record number

1003102234-01

Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed over central Missouri. Several tornadoes, hail and isolated damaging winds were reported with a few of the storms.

A tornado touched down one mile north of Highway 94 on Highway PP. Several large tree branches were blown down in this location. A small utility building was damaged on a farmstead along Highway PP. The tornado continued to move to the north northeast for about eight tenths of a mile before lifting and dissipating. It was rated EF0 with a max damage width of 40 yards.

A tornado touched down on the western and northern sides of South Callaway High School and Elementary School. The tornado initially hit the west side of the football stadium damaging the stands. The tornado then moved north northeastward and caused minor damage to the northern part of the roof of the elementary school. Additional damage occurred on the western side of the softball field in which the two dugouts were destroyed and the fence surrounding the baseball field was damaged. A number of trees were uprooted west of the baseball field. The tornado was travelling uphill and crossed Highway C approximately one and a half miles northwest of Mokane. Additional minor tree damage was found off of Highway VV approximately 3.5 miles north of Mokane before lifting and dissipating. The tornado had a max width of 40 yards, a path length of 3.7 miles and was rated EF0.

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

13 minutes of warning. NWS LSX issued a tornado warning for this county at 04:21 UTC, 13 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 04:45 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 Slight Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 01:31 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 St Louis radar (KLSX), 108 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 04:33 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 2010 tornado in MissouriEvery tornado in Missouri since 1950Warnings in force in Missouri nowThe forecast where you are

10 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.