Tornado, Polk
- When
- March 13, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Polk County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 600 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 37.470, -93.280
Tornado and Hail in Missouri, March 13, 1990
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Platte
- When
- March 13, 11:28 PM CST
- Where
- Platte County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 39.170, -94.620
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, March 13, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, March 13, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, March 13, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, March 13, 1990
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, March 13, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, March 13, 1990
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, March 13, 1990
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, March 13, 1990
- Hail in Minnesota, March 13, 1990
More
Every storm in Missouri in 1990Every state in 1990This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Missouri, 1990Warnings in Missouri, March 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: 10069826, 10069827.