Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2009 tornadoes in Missouri

44 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2009, 26 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 3 people and injured 11.

2008 2010 The whole country in 2009

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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.
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 2009

February 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 10	10:43 PM CST	EF1	Greene	5.4	75			$350,000

March 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 8	12:15 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	6.5	70			$130,000

April 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 9	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Christian	1.6	150			$100,000

April 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	9:17 PM CDT	EF0	Clinton	0.1	25

May 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	8:01 PM CDT	EF0	Daviess	0.1	25

May 8 23 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 8	7:53 AM CDT	EF1	Dade	1.9	100		$35,000
May 8	8:05 AM CDT	EF1	Greene	3.9	100		$1.0 million
May 8	8:14 AM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.8	75		$200,000
May 8	8:16 AM CDT	EF1	Polk	8.6	250		$2.0 million
May 8	8:21 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	3.5	100		$100,000
May 8	8:25 AM CDT	EF1	Taney	12.3	880		$2.6 million
May 8	8:38 AM CDT	EF1	Webster	3.8	400		$50,000
May 8	8:39 AM CDT	EF2	Douglas	2.3	1,320		$200,000
May 8	8:39 AM CDT	EF2	Douglas	2.5	880		$20,000
May 8	8:41 AM CDT	EF2	Dallas	4.3	400	2	$2.0 million
May 8	8:48 AM CDT	EF1	Douglas	1.1	200		$50,000
May 8	8:48 AM CDT	EF1	Ozark	1.6	440		$200,000
May 8	9:07 AM CDT	EF1	Wright	3.8	440		$50,000
May 8	9:19 AM CDT	EF0	Texas	6.8	200		$50,000
May 8	9:25 AM CDT	EF2	Laclede	2.0	440		$500,000
May 8	9:28 AM CDT	EF3	Howell	2.2	800		$500,000
May 8	9:35 AM CDT	EF2	Howell	27.9	880	2	$2.5 million
May 8	9:35 AM CDT	EF1	Howell	10.8	880		$500,000
May 8	9:40 AM CDT	EF1	Texas	3.5	440		$25,000
May 8	10:25 AM CDT	EF1	Reynolds	1.8	440
May 8	11:20 AM CDT	EF0	Perry	2.2	50		$7,000
May 8	12:05 PM CDT	EF0	Madison	0.5	50
May 8	12:10 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	0.5	30

May 13 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 13	5:10 PM CDT	EF1	Sullivan	4.3	100	1		$25,000
May 13	5:43 PM CDT	EF1	Adair	7.7	100			$100,000
May 13	6:09 PM CDT	EF2	Adair	5.8	150	2	6	$5.0 million
May 13	6:33 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	9.2	200
May 13	6:49 PM CDT	EF0	Knox	3.1	100

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	1:11 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Francois	0.6	200

May 15 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	4:47 PM CDT	EF0	Monroe	0.1	30
May 15	5:00 PM CDT	EF0	Monroe	0.3	40

June 7 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 7	8:13 PM CDT	EF0	DeKalb	0.1	25
June 7	8:27 PM CDT	EF0	DeKalb	0.1	25
June 7	10:44 PM CDT	EF0	Caldwell	0.1	25

June 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 9	7:59 PM CDT	EF0	Oregon	0.0	20

June 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 10	5:41 PM CDT	EF0	Vernon	1.4	50
June 10	8:05 PM CDT	EF1	Miller	0.6	200			$50,000

June 16 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 16	5:40 AM CDT	EF1	Cedar	5.8	150			$15,000

August 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 19	12:05 AM CDT	EF1	Texas	0.8	100		1	$25,000

Crossed into Missouri

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

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Dyer, TN to MO	5.2	25

Nearby

Every tornado in Missouri since 1950 Warnings in force in Missouri The 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.