Hail, Saline
- When
- April 17, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.380, -93.080
Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 17, 1963
1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Shelby
- When
- April 17, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 39.720, -92.230
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 17, 1963
- Tornadoes and Hail in Indiana, April 17, 1963
- Tornadoes and Hail in Michigan, April 17, 1963
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Iowa, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Ohio, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Oklahoma, April 17, 1963
- Hail in Texas, April 17, 1963
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 17, 1963
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1963Every state in 1963This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1963
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: 10060355, 10063609.