Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2011 tornadoes in Missouri

77 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2011, 120 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 158 people and injured 1,180. 2 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

2010 2012 The whole country in 2011

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 2011

February 27 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
February 27	6:45 PM CST	EF1	Shelby	1.0	30
February 27	6:48 PM CST	EF0	Shelby	2.0	20
February 27	8:05 PM CST	EF0	Pike	2.3	40
February 27	10:05 PM CST	EF0	Pike	1.4	40
February 27	10:15 PM CST	EF1	Osage	0.2	50
February 27	10:33 PM CST	EF1	Gasconade	0.7	175
February 27	10:53 PM CST	EF1	Franklin	9.3	200
February 27	11:03 PM CST	EF1	Saint Louis	0.1	50
February 27	11:04 PM CST	EF1	Saint Louis	0.4	75
February 27	11:05 PM CST	EF1	Saint Louis	0.9	200
February 27	11:06 PM CST	EF1	Saint Louis	0.7	50
February 27	11:10 PM CST	EF1	Saint Louis	0.6	70

April 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 10	10:55 PM CDT	EF0	Webster	6.7	100			$10,000

April 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 15	1:35 PM CDT	EF1	Pike	3.0	50

April 19 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 19	4:00 PM CDT	EF1	Pike	4.1	150
April 19	4:36 PM CDT	EF0	Pike	0.4	50
April 19	7:43 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	5.2	500	$25,000
April 19	7:55 PM CDT	EF0	Bollinger	0.5	100	$15,000
April 19	9:27 PM CDT	EF0	Cape Girardeau	0.1	40	$20,000

April 22 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 22	7:17 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Charles	7.3	250
April 22	7:59 PM CDT	EF4	Saint Louis to IL	21.3	880	5	$250 million
April 22	8:10 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	2.1	300		$100,000

April 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 23	1:31 PM CDT	EF0	Stoddard	0.5	80			$50,000
April 23	12:02 AM CDT	EF1	Butler	3.0	100			$175,000

April 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 25	5:47 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	11.8	200	$25,000
April 25	5:58 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	5.9	500	$70,000
April 25	6:30 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	2.8	70	$200,000

April 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 27	3:15 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	2.2	40
April 27	4:10 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.2	40

May 11 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 11	7:23 PM CDT	EF0	McDonald	0.8	75	$10,000
May 11	8:21 PM CDT	EF0	Bates	8.5	50	$500
May 11	8:35 PM CDT	EF0	St. Clair	2.7	50	$8,000

May 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 21	7:30 PM CDT	EF0	Andrew	1.2	60			$7,000

May 22 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	2:38 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	0.3	40			$500
May 22	3:25 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	0.1	50
May 22	3:58 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	0.1	50			$3,000
May 22	4:50 PM CDT	EF1	Saline	3.5	75			$230,000
May 22	5:34 PM CDT	EF5	Newton	21.6	1,600	158	1150	$2.8 billion
May 22	6:10 PM CDT	EF2	Newton	14.1	800			$1.0 million
May 22	7:10 PM CDT	EF2	Stone	15.7	200			$1.1 million

May 23 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 23	1:45 PM CDT	EF0	Howell	1.0	100			$10,000
May 23	3:54 PM CDT	EF0	Cape Girardeau	0.5	40			$1,000

May 25 22 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 25	1:30 AM CDT	EF1	Webster	9.3	100		$20,000
May 25	11:35 AM CDT	EF0	Cass	0.1	40
May 25	12:22 PM CDT	EF2	Pettis	2.1	500	20	$4.0 million
May 25	12:33 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	0.1	40
May 25	12:45 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	0.1	40
May 25	12:52 PM CDT	EF0	Pettis	0.1	40
May 25	1:04 PM CDT	EF0	Cooper	0.1	40
May 25	1:07 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	0.1	40
May 25	2:15 PM CDT	EF1	Montgomery	7.1	100
May 25	2:56 PM CDT	EF1	Oregon	2.5	100		$20,000
May 25	3:49 PM CDT	EF3	Carter	47.4	1,200	2	$800,000
May 25	4:35 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	5.5	40
May 25	4:37 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	17.8	150		$70,000
May 25	4:44 PM CDT	EF0	Carter	0.5	50		$2,000
May 25	4:46 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	5.3	440
May 25	4:47 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	4.3	580
May 25	4:51 PM CDT	EF0	Perry	0.3	60		$3,000
May 25	4:58 PM CDT	EF0	Ripley	0.7	50
May 25	5:14 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	0.7	40
May 25	5:26 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	13.0	250		$30,000
May 25	6:18 PM CDT	EF1	Cape Girardeau	2.1	250		$20,000
May 25	6:30 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.4	50		$1,000

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	10:53 PM CDT	EF0	Linn	3.8	100

June 18 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 18	11:35 PM CDT	EF1	Dade	10.9	200
June 18	11:40 PM CDT	EF1	Dade	6.0	100	$5,000
June 18	12:03 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	2.8	100	$30,000

June 19 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
June 19	1:57 AM CDT	EF0	Crawford	1.3	60
June 19	1:58 AM CDT	EF2	Crawford	2.8	80	3	$150,000
June 19	10:07 PM CDT	EF0	Atchison	0.5	40

June 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 26	7:50 PM CDT	EF0	Nodaway	0.1	25
June 26	12:45 AM CDT	EF1	Shelby	1.1	70
June 26	12:47 AM CDT	EF1	Shelby	1.2	70

June 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	1:05 AM CDT	EF1	Monroe	0.4	40
June 27	1:09 AM CDT	EF0	Ralls	0.6	70

September 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 18	5:30 PM CDT	EF0	Barry	0.0	10

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
April 22	7:59 PM CDT	EF1	McClain, OK to MO, IL	0.2	30			$5,000
May 22	6:52 PM CDT	EF3	Delaware, OK to MO	17.9	1,550		4	$2.0 million

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.