Tornado, Dunklin
- When
- April 22, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Dunklin County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Injuries
- 26 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 36.600, -90.420
Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 22, 1981
7 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
- 2
- Injuries
- 32
- Property damage
- $53 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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
7 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, New Madrid
- When
- April 22, 4:52 PM CST
- Where
- New Madrid County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 55.2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.600, -90.380
Hail, New Madrid
- When
- April 22, 4:58 PM CST
- Where
- New Madrid County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.680, -89.820
Tornado, Scott
- When
- April 22, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.100, -89.500
Tornado, Scott
- When
- April 22, 5:42 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.130, -89.450
Tornado, Jefferson
- When
- April 22, 5:54 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 7.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 38.180, -90.500
Tornado, Mississippi
- When
- April 22, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 6.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25 million
- Coordinates
- 36.880, -89.450
Tornado, Scott
- When
- April 22, 7:02 PM CST
- Where
- Scott County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 37.170, -89.450
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, Jefferson | 1981-04-22 | Direct | |||
| Tornado, Mississippi | 1981-04-22 | 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 1981Every state in 1981This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1981
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: 10058320, 10058321, 10058322, 10058323, 10058324, 10058325, 10058326, 10058327.