Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2006 tornadoes in Missouri

96 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2006, 175 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 11 people and injured 144. 2 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. F040 to 72 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. F173 to 112 mph

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. F2113 to 157 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. F3158 to 206 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. F4207 to 260 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. F5261 to 318 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Missouri in 2006

January 2 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
January 23:00 AM CSTF0Saint Charles0.540
January 24:45 AM CSTF0Reynolds0.550
January 25:25 AM CSTF1Saint Louis1.050

February 16 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
February 164:00 PM CSTF0Shannon0.2100
February 167:18 PM CSTF1Scott0.5225$100,000

March 9 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 912:19 AM CSTF0Pettis1.350$10,000
March 95:44 PM CSTF1Stoddard1.2175$900,000

March 11 8 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 114:35 PM CSTF0Taney8.020
March 115:50 PM CSTF0Douglas0.120$10,000
March 117:50 PM CSTF0Phelps3.025
March 117:55 PM CSTF2Reynolds35.5450
March 118:48 PM CSTF1Madison0.775
March 118:54 PM CSTF1Madison11.0300
March 119:20 PM CSTF3Sainte Genevieve53.5400212$2.2 million
March 119:42 PM CSTF3Monroe to IL5.1200

March 12 36 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 129:12 AM CSTF1Jackson17.0150$40,000
March 129:44 AM CSTF0Carroll9.6100$250,000
March 1210:46 AM CSTF0Randolph10.575
March 1210:57 AM CSTF0Monroe0.150
March 1211:25 AM CSTF0Ralls0.250
March 123:49 PM CSTF0Pettis28.0150$10,000
March 123:50 PM CSTF1Henry13.0150$100,000
March 124:12 PM CSTF2Pettis11.250016$2.5 million
March 124:25 PM CSTF1Morgan1.0250$10,000
March 124:30 PM CSTF0Cooper1.075
March 124:33 PM CSTF0Howard3.075
March 125:25 PM CSTF0Audrain6.075
March 126:24 PM CSTF0Pike1.050
March 126:25 PM CSTF1Pike5.0125
March 127:51 PM CSTF0Johnson8.8100
March 127:52 PM CSTF2Bates26.0450113$580,000
March 128:07 PM CSTF2Pettis20.01506$3.0 million
March 128:28 PM CSTF3Saline35.0350$530,000
March 128:38 PM CSTF0Saline6.4100
March 128:40 PM CSTF2Johnson12.82004$2.0 million
March 128:47 PM CSTF2Vernon38.030017$1.6 million
March 129:02 PM CSTF0Scotland6.08$10,000
March 129:18 PM CSTF3Randolph19.7300426$5.0 million
March 129:18 PM CSTF0Barton57.050
March 129:25 PM CSTF1Newton7.0751$200,000
March 129:36 PM CSTF0Newton0.115$10,000
March 129:43 PM CSTF4Monroe29.0500
March 1210:15 PM CSTF3Lawrence42.025018$56 million
March 1210:17 PM CSTF3Hickory17.020019$1.0 million
March 1210:20 PM CSTF2Morgan6.01005$850,000
March 1211:03 PM CSTF2Webster7.015013$700,000
March 1211:15 PM CSTF3Webster32.0200$530,000
March 1211:25 PM CSTF0Benton3.020$50,000
March 1211:30 PM CSTF1Osage14.0150
March 1211:31 PM CSTF0Morgan6.0100
March 1211:43 PM CSTF0Callaway6.2200

March 13 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 1312:00 AM CSTF3Montgomery6.03001$800,000
March 1312:30 AM CSTF2Callaway13.01002
March 131:20 AM CSTF3Montgomery to IL44.53006$2.7 million
March 131:36 AM CSTF1Lincoln0.275

March 30 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 307:10 PM CSTF2Andrew5.08008$800,000
March 308:10 PM CSTF0Harrison1.050
March 308:20 PM CSTF0Johnson9.050$10,000
March 308:28 PM CSTF1Pettis13.6751$450,000

April 2 4 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 24:25 PM CDTF2Ralls3.5350
April 25:00 PM CDTF0Saint Francois0.150
April 25:05 PM CDTF0Sainte Genevieve2.040
April 26:43 PM CDTF0Scott1.550$20,000

April 15 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 158:38 PM CDTF0DeKalb1.550
April 158:43 PM CDTF2DeKalb13.0100$70,000
April 159:15 PM CDTF0Ray10.175$10,000

April 25 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 254:40 PM CDTF0Oregon8.050
April 257:08 PM CDTF1Pemiscot15.0100$60,000
April 257:10 PM CDTF0Pemiscot7.030$10,000

April 30 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
April 3010:39 AM CDTF0Mississippi0.250
April 306:58 PM CDTF0New Madrid0.250

May 3 3 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 31:57 PM CDTF0Oregon2.020
May 36:25 PM CDTF0Barton16.050
May 37:56 PM CDTF0Dade8.025

May 26 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
May 2612:30 PM CDTF0Barry1.0100

June 10 2 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 105:50 PM CDTF0Montgomery1.360
June 105:55 PM CDTF0Callaway1.075

June 22 5 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
June 221:05 PM CDTF0Audrain0.140
June 221:07 PM CDTF1Audrain1.050
June 221:10 PM CDTF0Audrain0.350
June 221:25 PM CDTF0Audrain3.550
June 222:15 PM CDTF0Pike0.350

July 17 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 178:35 PM CDTF1Schuyler1.175$10,000

July 18 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 188:50 PM CDTF0Shannon3.050

July 21 1 tornado

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
July 2112:47 PM CDTF0Perry0.250$10,000

September 22 11 tornadoes

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
September 222:40 PM CDTF0Crawford3.080
September 222:42 PM CDTF2Reynolds25.2550
September 222:42 PM CDTF1Crawford10.480
September 223:11 PM CDTF1Washington3.1150
September 223:18 PM CDTF1Jefferson1.5100
September 223:30 PM CDTF2Madison25.08801$150,000
September 224:13 PM CDTF4Perry to IL27.52256$7.8 million
September 225:02 PM CDTF2Iron4.8100
September 225:05 PM CDTF1Jefferson0.7100
September 228:01 PM CDTF1Butler0.350$4,000
September 228:15 PM CDTF1Phelps8.0350$1.5 million

Crossed into Missouri

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Missouri. They are counted under the state they began in.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
March 122:20 PM CSTF0Linn, KS to MO16.4220$400,000
March 1210:50 PM CSTF1Carroll, AR to MO8.0200$40,000
April 25:37 PM CDTF3Randolph, AR to MO77.08802177$86 million
April 67:46 PM CDTF1Cherokee, KS to MO5.0250$100,000
May 33:53 PM CDTF0Bourbon, KS to MO11.050

Nearby

Every tornado in Missouri since 1950Warnings in force in MissouriThe live radar over Missouri

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.