Missouri

Storms in Missouri in 1954

40 events in 15 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Missouri in 1954, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Missouri in 1954 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Missouri

The year

Events
40
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
15

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado4025$1.4 million

Every episode, month by month

March 1954

April 1954

May 1954

June 1954

August 1954

September 1954

More

Every year in MissouriEvery state in 1954Tornadoes in Missouri in 195419531955

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.