Hail, Boone
- When
- March 29, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Boone County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.880, -92.180
Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 29, 1960
5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $53,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
5 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Grundy
- When
- March 29, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Grundy County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.080, -93.620
Hail, Maries
- When
- March 29, 4:35 PM CST
- Where
- Maries County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 38.080, -91.780
Hail, Montgomery
- When
- March 29, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -91.580
Thunderstorm Wind, Mercer
- When
- March 29, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mercer County
- Coordinates
- 40.380, -93.580
Hail, Ozark
- When
- March 29, 5:38 PM CST
- Where
- Ozark County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.500, -92.500
Hail, Montgomery
- When
- March 29, 5:56 PM CST
- Where
- Montgomery County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -91.580
Tornado, Stoddard
- When
- March 29, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Stoddard County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.5 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.630, -89.920
Tornado, Scott
- When
- March 29, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -89.550
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, March 29, 1960
- Tornadoes in Illinois, March 29, 1960
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, March 29, 1960
- Hail in Indiana, March 29, 1960
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, March 29, 1960
- Hail in Georgia, March 29, 1960
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, March 29, 1960
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, March 29, 1960
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: 10060436, 10060437, 10060438, 10060439, 10060440, 10060441, 10060442, 10060443, 10060444.