Missouri

Storms in Missouri in 1985

254 events in 42 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Missouri in 1985, 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 1985 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
254
Deaths
0
Injuries
19
Damage
$4.3 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
Hail140013
Thunderstorm Wind9900
Tornado1506$4.3 million

Every episode, month by month

March 1985

April 1985

May 1985

June 1985

July 1985

August 1985

September 1985

November 1985

More

Every year in MissouriEvery state in 1985Tornadoes in Missouri in 198519841986

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.