Tornado, Barry
- When
- March 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 23.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.550, -93.970
Tornadoes in Missouri, March 24, 1954
11 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 3
- Property damage
- $408,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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.
Event by event
11 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Barton
- When
- March 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barton County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 15.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 37.450, -94.400
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- March 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.120, -94.530
Tornado, Barry
- When
- March 24, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.4 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.820, -93.880
Tornado, Newton
- When
- March 24, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 11.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.820, -94.100
Tornado, McDonald
- When
- March 24, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- McDonald County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 19.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.570, -94.520
Tornado, McDonald
- When
- March 24, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- McDonald County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6.6 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.720, -94.220
Tornado, Barry
- When
- March 24, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.720, -93.670
Tornado, Webster
- When
- March 24, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.7 mi
- Path width
- 900 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.170, -92.950
Tornado, Webster
- When
- March 24, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 9.7 mi
- Path width
- 900 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.180, -92.870
Tornado, Christian
- When
- March 24, 11:45 PM CST
- Where
- Christian County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 3.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.970, -93.230
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
More
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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: 10063644, 10063645, 10063646, 10063647, 10063648, 10063649, 10063650, 10063651, 10063652, 10063653, 10063654.