Tornado, Gentry
- When
- June 8, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gentry County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.220, -94.550
Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Missouri, June 8, 1974
16 thunderstorm wind, 5 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
- 6
- Property damage
- $2.6 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 21
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
16 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Polk
- When
- June 8, 9:15 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Coordinates
- 37.480, -93.430
Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -94.600
Tornado, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 36.850, -94.400
Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Coordinates
- 37.000, -94.320
Tornado, Jasper
- When
- June 8, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Jasper County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 37.070, -94.120
Tornado, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.900, -94.330
Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -94.370
Thunderstorm Wind, McDonald
- When
- June 8, 9:50 PM CST
- Where
- McDonald County
- Coordinates
- 36.650, -94.430
Thunderstorm Wind, Newton
- When
- June 8, 9:50 PM CST
- Where
- Newton County
- Coordinates
- 36.870, -94.200
Thunderstorm Wind, Barry
- When
- June 8, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Barry County
- Coordinates
- 36.920, -93.920
Thunderstorm Wind, Lawrence
- When
- June 8, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -93.830
Tornado, Nodaway
- When
- June 8, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nodaway County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10.1 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 40.200, -95.050
Thunderstorm Wind, Christian
- When
- June 8, 10:10 PM CST
- Where
- Christian County
- Coordinates
- 37.070, -93.570
Thunderstorm Wind, Greene
- When
- June 8, 10:20 PM CST
- Where
- Greene County
- Coordinates
- 37.250, -93.380
Thunderstorm Wind, Webster
- When
- June 8, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Coordinates
- 37.350, -93.050
Thunderstorm Wind, Webster
- When
- June 8, 11:10 PM CST
- Where
- Webster County
- Coordinates
- 37.150, -92.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Laclede
- When
- June 8, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Laclede County
- Coordinates
- 37.680, -92.670
Thunderstorm Wind, Miller
- When
- June 8, 11:25 PM CST
- Where
- Miller County
- Coordinates
- 38.230, -92.470
Thunderstorm Wind, Cole
- When
- June 8, 11:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cole County
- Coordinates
- 38.450, -92.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Cole
- When
- June 8, 11:35 PM CST
- Where
- Cole County
- Coordinates
- 38.670, -92.270
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 8, 1974
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, June 8, 1974
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 8, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 8, 1974
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 8, 1974
- Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 8, 1974
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 8, 1974
- Hail in Texas, June 8, 1974
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: 10060267, 10060268, 10060269, 10060270, 10060271, 10060272, 10060273, 10060274, 10060275, 10060276, 10060277, 10060278, 10060279, 10060280, 10060281, 10060282, 10060283, 10056628, 10056629, 10056630, 10056631.