Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 11, 1994

Name: Tornado and Hail in Missouri, April 11, 1994
Start: 1994-04-11T00:10
End: 1994-04-11T19:40
Location: Missouri

April 11, 1994 · 3 events in 3 counties and zones

1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

Tornadoes
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Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
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Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
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The toll

Deaths: 1
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $100,000
Crop damage: $500
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

1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Vernon

When: April 11, 12:10 AM CST
Where: Vernon County, Nevada
Measured: 0.75 in hail
Property damage: $50
Coordinates: 37.851, -94.342 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Tornado, Barry

When: April 11, 5:15 PM CST to 5:25 PM CST
Where: Barry County, Seligman
Rating: F1
Path length: 2.8 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Deaths: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Property damage: $50,000
Crop damage: $500
Coordinates: 36.520, -93.930

A tornado touched down near the Missouri-Arkansas border and moved northeast towards the community of Seligman. A mobile home roof was damaged just inside the Missouri border north of Gateway, AR, as the storm moved northeast at 35 to 45 mph. The next touchdown was on the south edge of Seligman where a 60-year-old woman was killed in her mobile home. The storm destroyed a total of three mobile homes in the Heritage Heights Mobile Home Park. Several people observed debris rotating within the funnel. Another touchdown was in a deep ravine just east of town and uprooted several large trees laying them in a criss-cross pattern. (F60M)

Thunderstorm Wind, Taney

When: April 11, 7:40 PM CST
Where: Taney County, Branson
Property damage: $50,000
Coordinates: 36.655, -93.041 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Large trees were blown down damaging a roof and landing on several parked cars. Reported by county officials and a local newspaper.

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, Barry	1994-04-11				Direct

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
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.
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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Missouri in 1994 Every state in 1994 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Missouri, 1994 Warnings in Missouri, April 1994

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: 10334824, 10333134, 10334732.