Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2015 tornadoes in Missouri

47 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2015, 34 percent above the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

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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 2015

March 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 25	6:07 PM CDT	EF0	Howell	0.6	100			$5,000

April 2 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 2	8:33 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	2.6	100	$5,000
April 2	9:09 PM CDT	EF0	Jasper	0.1	75	$10,000
April 2	11:25 PM CDT	EF1	McDonald	12.4	100	$20,000
April 2	12:26 AM CDT	EF1	Douglas	0.9	100	$15,000
April 2	12:52 AM CDT	EF2	Howell	7.6	440	$600,000

April 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 7	9:53 PM CDT	EF0	Bates	0.6	20			$10,000

April 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 8	3:30 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	4.1	300

April 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 9	9:16 PM CDT	EF0	Cape Girardeau	1.8	150			$6,000
April 9	9:31 PM CDT	EF0	Cape Girardeau	1.7	130			$60,000

May 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 14	8:20 PM CDT	EF0	Chariton	0.3	25

May 16 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 16	9:35 PM CDT	EF0	Ray	0.9	100
May 16	11:15 PM CDT	EF2	Jackson	10.0	250
May 16	11:51 PM CDT	EF1	Caldwell	2.8	100
May 16	12:05 AM CDT	EF1	Bates	0.9	100
May 16	12:48 AM CDT	EF0	Henry	6.5	25

May 17 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 17	1:38 AM CDT	EF1	Lawrence	4.5	100	$100,000
May 17	2:07 AM CDT	EF0	Polk	1.7	200
May 17	2:10 AM CDT	EF0	Polk	10.6	100	$15,000
May 17	2:11 AM CDT	EF0	Polk	2.1	100	$20,000
May 17	2:38 AM CDT	EF0	Dallas	0.1	40	$5,000

May 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	12:15 PM CDT	EF1	St. Clair	5.0	200			$400,000
May 24	5:59 PM CDT	EF1	Ozark	4.7	200			$75,000

June 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 11	4:00 PM CDT	EF0	Atchison	0.2	25

June 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 13	6:45 PM CDT	EF1	Lincoln	1.9	50

June 28 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 28	5:46 PM CDT	EF0	Callaway	0.1	10
June 28	6:23 PM CDT	EF1	Pike	2.5	50
June 28	6:34 PM CDT	EF0	Pike	0.7	40
June 28	8:04 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Charles	2.3	400

July 1 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 1	6:51 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	0.9	100
July 1	7:04 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.2	50
July 1	8:01 PM CDT	EF0	Cass	1.4	100
July 1	9:56 PM CDT	EF1	Benton	3.3	600	$500,000
July 1	10:55 PM CDT	EF0	Maries	0.2	50

July 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 6	5:04 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	1.2	40

July 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 8	6:43 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.2	100
July 8	7:06 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	0.1	50
July 8	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Scott to IL	6.3	125	$66,000

July 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 9	3:00 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	1.4	100
July 9	3:05 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	2.4	100

September 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 18	7:57 PM CDT	EF1	Cass	5.2	100
September 18	8:32 PM CDT	EF0	Cass	2.3	25

November 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 11	2:25 PM CST	EF0	Mercer	0.3	40
November 11	4:40 PM CST	EF1	Scotland	2.5	75

December 23 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
December 23	9:43 AM CST	EF1	Carter	6.0	100	$90,000
December 23	9:56 AM CST	EF1	Wayne	3.0	50	$5,000
December 23	10:08 AM CST	EF1	Wayne	3.0	75	$50,000

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 16	12:51 AM CDT	EF1	Ottawa, OK to MO	12.2	200			$200,000

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.