Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2014 tornadoes in Missouri

46 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2014, 32 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2013 2015 The whole country in 2014

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 2014

February 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 20	4:39 PM CST	EF1	Pemiscot	0.2	70		5	$75,000
February 20	4:41 PM CST	EF1	Pemiscot	0.0	25			$10,000

March 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 27	4:03 PM CDT	EF1	Daviess	9.3	200
March 27	4:22 PM CDT	EF2	Daviess	3.0	100
March 27	4:55 PM CDT	EF0	Grundy	12.8	500

April 3 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 3	5:19 AM CDT	EF1	Saint Louis	0.6	100
April 3	7:56 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	0.2	50	$17,000
April 3	9:00 PM CDT	EF1	Butler	0.6	75	$2,000
April 3	9:01 PM CDT	EF1	Stoddard	7.4	75	$8,000
April 3	9:40 PM CDT	EF2	Ripley	3.5	220	$50,000

April 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 27	12:51 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	2.4	50
April 27	6:15 PM CDT	EF0	Vernon	0.3	100
April 27	11:45 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	0.9	100	$10,000

May 8 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 8	1:45 PM CDT	EF0	Barry	2.4	50			$10,000
May 8	5:10 PM CDT	EF1	Douglas	2.5	100			$15,000

May 10 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 10	5:15 PM CDT	EF2	Ray	12.6	500
May 10	6:00 PM CDT	EF0	Ray	0.6	25
May 10	7:26 PM CDT	EF1	Saline	7.3	1,350	$10,000

June 7 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 7	2:35 PM CDT	EF0	Gasconade	0.1	20
June 7	3:56 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Charles	2.7	20
June 7	4:14 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Louis	4.2	40

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	4:17 AM CDT	EF0	Cass	2.9	25

June 29 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 29	9:12 PM CDT	EF0	Buchanan	0.3	25
June 29	9:55 PM CDT	EF1	Mercer	6.3	300
June 29	12:45 AM CDT	EF1	Schuyler	4.7	300

June 30 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 30	4:40 PM CDT	EF0	Nodaway	3.5	200
June 30	6:43 PM CDT	EF1	Worth	2.1	300
June 30	7:53 PM CDT	EF0	Harrison	3.0	200
June 30	9:34 PM CDT	EF1	Clay	0.8	200

September 1 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 1	10:43 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	6.4	60
September 1	11:13 PM CDT	EF1	Newton	2.2	100	$50,000
September 1	11:14 PM CDT	EF1	Newton	2.7	400
September 1	11:36 PM CDT	EF0	Newton	1.2	100	$10,000

September 9 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
September 9	5:50 PM CDT	EF0	Atchison	4.9	25
September 9	7:10 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	3.0	30
September 9	7:35 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.1	25
September 9	7:40 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.1	25
September 9	9:10 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Charles	1.7	25
September 9	10:22 PM CDT	EF0	DeKalb	0.8	25

September 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 10	2:40 AM CDT	EF1	Adair	18.3	20

October 13 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 13	6:25 AM CDT	EF1	Stone	0.1	75	$5,000
October 13	6:58 AM CDT	EF0	Lawrence	0.1	50	$5,000
October 13	7:20 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	0.4	100
October 13	1:30 PM CDT	EF1	Stoddard	9.3	75	$53,000
October 13	1:45 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	7.2	100	$250,000
October 13	2:02 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	2.0	50	$20,000

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
June 7	2:48 PM CDT	EF1	New Madrid, KY to MO, TN	18.2	200			$270,000

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.