Tornado, Saline
- When
- July 22, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.1 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.970, -93.500
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 22, 1961
4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $550,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
4 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Howard
- When
- July 22, 1:45 PM CST
- Where
- Howard County
- Coordinates
- 39.000, -92.780
Tornado, Lewis
- When
- July 22, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Lewis County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.000, -91.720
Tornado, Pettis
- When
- July 22, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Pettis County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 38.920, -93.500
Tornado, Jackson
- When
- July 22, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 133 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 38.830, -94.130
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.
- 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 in Oklahoma, July 22, 1961
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Arizona, July 22, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 22, 1961
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, July 22, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 22, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 22, 1961
- Tornado in North Dakota, July 22, 1961
- Hail in Nebraska, July 22, 1961
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: 10062759, 10061419, 10061420, 10061421, 10061422.