Missouri

Storms in Missouri in 1978

175 events in 42 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Missouri in 1978, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Missouri in 1978 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Missouri

The year

Events
175
Deaths
0
Injuries
10
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
42

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind11800
Hail4700
Tornado10010$5.9 million

Every episode, month by month

April 1978

May 1978

June 1978

July 1978

August 1978

September 1978

October 1978

December 1978

More

Every year in MissouriEvery state in 1978Tornadoes in Missouri in 197819771979

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.