Thunderstorm Wind, Cape Girardeau
- When
- February 15, 2:35 AM CST
- Where
- Cape Girardeau County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 37.500, -89.630
Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Missouri, February 15, 1990
2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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
2 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, New Madrid
- When
- February 15, 2:08 PM CST
- Where
- New Madrid County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.430, -89.670
Tornado, New Madrid
- When
- February 15, 2:24 PM CST
- Where
- New Madrid County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.800, -89.620
What these are
- 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.
- 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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Louisiana, February 15, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Mississippi, February 15, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, February 15, 1990
- Tornado and Hail in Alabama, February 15, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, February 15, 1990
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, February 15, 1990
- Hail in Arkansas, February 15, 1990
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1990Every state in 1990This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1990Warnings in Missouri, February 1990
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: 10069816, 10069817, 10069818.