Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2016 tornadoes in Missouri

18 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2016, 48 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2015 2017 The whole country in 2016

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 2016

March 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 23	11:08 PM CDT	EF1	Stone	3.8	200

April 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 19	6:18 PM CDT	EF0	Audrain	2.0	15

April 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 26	12:52 PM CDT	EF1	Warren	5.5	100
April 26	1:24 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Charles	0.3	50
April 26	12:21 AM CDT	EF1	Newton	0.8	150	$50,000

April 27 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 27	1:49 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	0.2	40	$100,000
April 27	4:52 PM CDT	EF0	Daviess	4.3	25
April 27	7:47 PM CDT	EF1	Scotland	0.2	40	$100,000
April 27	8:23 PM CDT	EF0	Shelby	0.8	75
April 27	8:30 PM CDT	EF0	Scotland	0.2	30	$100,000
April 27	9:00 PM CDT	EF1	Lewis	2.0	150

May 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 11	8:15 PM CDT	EF2	Crawford	4.4	700

May 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	5:03 PM CDT	EF0	Johnson	1.4	25

May 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 30	6:14 PM CDT	EF0	Grundy	0.0	10
May 30	6:29 PM CDT	EF0	Grundy	0.0	10

May 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	7:04 PM CDT	EF0	Putnam	0.0	20

July 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 7	6:45 AM CDT	EF0	Boone	0.3	50

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	7:25 PM CDT	EF0	Clinton	3.3	25			$2,000

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.