Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2017 tornadoes in Missouri

81 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2017, 132 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 33. 1 were rated F4 or EF4 and above.

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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 2017

February 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 28	6:40 PM CST	EF1	Reynolds	4.4	80
February 28	7:16 PM CST	EF0	Madison	4.4	50
February 28	7:51 PM CST	EF4	Perryville tornado	53.5	1,100	1	12	$15 million

March 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 1	12:30 AM CST	EF0	Dallas	1.0	100			$25,000
March 1	4:40 AM CST	EF1	Mississippi	15.2	200			$400,000

March 6 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 6	6:30 PM CST	EF0	Nodaway	5.8	25
March 6	7:24 PM CST	EF2	Clay	19.6	1,000
March 6	7:40 PM CST	EF1	Mercer	10.3	100
March 6	8:03 PM CST	EF0	Jackson	2.3	25
March 6	8:11 PM CST	EF3	Jackson	17.7	400	12
March 6	8:34 PM CST	EF1	Lafayette	1.8	50
March 6	8:40 PM CST	EF0	Carroll	6.0	100
March 6	8:56 PM CST	EF1	Chariton	19.8	100
March 6	9:10 PM CST	EF0	Pettis	3.9	25
March 6	9:17 PM CST	EF0	Henry	7.8	25
March 6	9:40 PM CST	EF0	Cooper	17.4	400
March 6	9:40 PM CST	EF1	Shelby	18.5	150	1
March 6	10:00 PM CST	EF1	Hickory	0.8	100		$5,000
March 6	10:24 PM CST	EF1	Camden	2.0	400	1	$100,000
March 6	10:36 PM CST	EF0	Morgan	0.3	50		$100,000
March 6	11:03 PM CST	EF1	Osage	7.3	75
March 6	11:17 PM CST	EF1	Montgomery	20.9	150
March 6	11:51 PM CST	EF1	Saint Charles	3.1	100	3

March 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 7	12:29 AM CST	EF0	Jefferson	2.6	80
March 7	12:39 AM CST	EF0	Jefferson	1.1	75

March 9 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 9	6:25 PM CST	EF2	Ripley	9.6	600	$30,000
March 9	6:32 PM CST	EF1	Butler	6.3	100	$25,000
March 9	6:42 PM CST	EF0	Barry	0.1	100	$25,000
March 9	6:50 PM CST	EF0	Taney	0.1	75	$20,000
March 9	7:00 PM CST	EF0	Barry	0.1	100
March 9	7:03 PM CST	EF1	Stoddard	2.3	75	$75,000
March 9	7:06 PM CST	EF0	Taney	1.9	100	$100,000
March 9	7:14 PM CST	EF1	Butler	2.7	200	$500,000
March 9	7:28 PM CST	EF1	Stoddard	11.2	250	$400,000
March 9	8:00 PM CST	EF0	Stoddard	0.7	100	$20,000
March 9	8:10 PM CST	EF1	New Madrid	1.1	150	$50,000
March 9	8:26 PM CST	EF2	Fulton to KY	9.7	250	$270,000

March 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 25	6:21 PM CDT	EF0	Ralls	6.8	20

March 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 29	11:00 PM CDT	EF1	Dent	2.5	200			$50,000

April 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 4	6:48 PM CDT	EF2	McDonald	16.5	300			$1.1 million
April 4	7:56 PM CDT	EF1	Barry	1.5	200			$15,000

April 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 15	7:25 PM CDT	EF0	Atchison	0.0	10

April 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 29	3:31 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Charles	3.9	100

April 30 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 30	2:08 AM CDT	EF1	Dunklin	1.2	100			$250,000
April 30	2:52 AM CDT	EF2	New Madrid	4.0	150			$60,000

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	12:34 AM CDT	EF0	Newton	1.0	100			$100,000

May 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 18	12:23 AM CDT	EF1	McDonald	1.0	100			$100,000

May 19 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 19	1:04 AM CDT	EF0	Barry	0.1	100		$50,000
May 19	1:28 AM CDT	EF0	Taney	0.3	75	1	$10,000
May 19	1:30 AM CDT	EF1	Taney	8.7	200
May 19	1:54 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	2.5	200		$100,000
May 19	2:00 AM CDT	EF0	Christian	3.0	500		$100,000
May 19	2:15 AM CDT	EF1	Webster	2.0	300		$10,000
May 19	3:00 AM CDT	EF0	Wright	0.3	50		$5,000
May 19	3:12 AM CDT	EF0	Oregon	0.8	300		$50,000
May 19	4:15 AM CDT	EF1	Callaway	1.6	50
May 19	4:23 AM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	4.0	75
May 19	2:55 PM CDT	EF1	McDonald	2.0	10		$50,000
May 19	3:10 PM CDT	EF0	Newton	4.1	300		$50,000
May 19	3:42 PM CDT	EF1	Lawrence	4.2	300		$50,000
May 19	3:57 PM CDT	EF0	Lawrence	1.0	100		$5,000
May 19	4:05 PM CDT	EF0	Dade	0.9	100
May 19	4:12 PM CDT	EF0	Dade	0.5	75
May 19	4:19 PM CDT	EF0	Polk	0.6	100		$5,000
May 19	6:27 PM CDT	EF1	Cole	0.9	75

May 27 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 27	2:38 PM CDT	EF1	Morgan	0.1	300	$25,000
May 27	2:38 PM CDT	EF1	Morgan	0.1	50	$50,000
May 27	2:50 PM CDT	EF1	Laclede	9.0	100	$100,000
May 27	3:05 PM CDT	EF1	Laclede	5.0	400	$100,000
May 27	3:09 PM CDT	EF1	Laclede	2.1	100
May 27	3:25 PM CDT	EF1	Laclede	0.0	100
May 27	4:00 PM CDT	EF0	Dent	0.0	50
May 27	8:18 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	1.9	85	$40,000

June 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 17	9:47 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	4.8	50

June 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 28	6:48 PM CDT	EF1	Gentry	16.4	75
June 28	8:31 PM CDT	EF0	Nodaway	1.3	25
June 28	8:50 PM CDT	EF0	Gentry	1.4	25

October 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 14	5:09 PM CDT	EF1	Scotland	0.1	10

December 4 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
December 4	4:54 PM CST	EF1	Randolph	10.0	30	2	$200,000
December 4	5:13 PM CST	EF2	Clark to IA	8.0	50	1	$100,000
December 4	6:18 PM CST	EF1	Miller	0.4	100		$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
April 26	1:22 AM CDT	EF1	Carroll, AR to MO	15.7	1,500			$185,000
April 30	1:56 AM CDT	EF1	Dunklin, AR to MO	2.0	50			$20,000

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.