Tornado, Barry
- When
- March 12, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7.8 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.600, -93.620
Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 12, 1961
8 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 22
- Property damage
- $1.5 million
- 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
8 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Stone
- When
- March 12, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Stone County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 16.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -93.380
Tornado, Newton
- When
- March 12, 6:10 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.950, -94.450
Tornado, Ozark
- When
- March 12, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ozark County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.620, -92.130
Tornado, Howell
- When
- March 12, 7:10 PM CST
- Where
- Howell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6.5 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 11 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.630, -92.120
Tornado, Howell
- When
- March 12, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Howell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 13.3 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.700, -92.030
Tornado, Ozark
- When
- March 12, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Ozark County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.8 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.580, -92.350
Tornado, Greene
- When
- March 12, 7:47 PM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.6 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -93.330
Hail, Ozark
- When
- March 12, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ozark County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.580, -92.400
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Howell | 1961-03-12 | Direct |
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1961Every state in 1961This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1961
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: 10061602, 10061603, 10061604, 10061605, 10061606, 10061607, 10061608, 10061609, 10061610.