Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2019 tornadoes in Missouri

63 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2019, 80 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 3 people and injured 38.

2018 2020 The whole country in 2019

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 2019

March 24 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 24	4:31 PM CDT	EF0	Crawford	5.8	100
March 24	5:22 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	0.0	20
March 24	7:31 PM CDT	EF1	Madison	4.2	250
March 24	8:47 PM CDT	EF2	Bollinger	10.3	250	1	$60,000

April 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 17	12:50 AM CDT	EF0	Dade	2.0	50			$100,000

April 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	1:00 AM CDT	EF0	Dade	1.0	200			$15,000

April 30 27 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 30	3:22 PM CDT	EF1	Lawrence	3.8	100		$150,000
April 30	3:42 PM CDT	EF1	McDonald	12.3	880		$650,000
April 30	3:50 PM CDT	EF1	Taney	5.4	100		$25,000
April 30	4:25 PM CDT	EF0	Barry	5.0	200		$35,000
April 30	5:15 PM CDT	EF0	Taney	1.0	75		$20,000
April 30	5:41 PM CDT	Unrated	Barry	0.5	50
April 30	6:15 PM CDT	EF0	Christian	1.9	50
April 30	6:44 PM CDT	EF1	Douglas	8.6	200		$75,000
April 30	6:48 PM CDT	EF0	Barry	1.9	75		$8,000
April 30	7:06 PM CDT	EF1	Douglas	3.0	200
April 30	7:30 PM CDT	EF1	Wright	1.4	75		$250,000
April 30	7:39 PM CDT	EF1	Dade	0.6	50		$50,000
April 30	7:40 PM CDT	EF1	Polk	1.8	100		$300,000
April 30	7:58 PM CDT	EF0	Wright	2.4	100		$100,000
April 30	8:15 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.8	200		$25,000
April 30	8:21 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.7	200		$300,000
April 30	8:28 PM CDT	EF2	Christian	10.3	400	3	$11 million
April 30	8:30 PM CDT	EF0	Dallas	1.5	50		$68,000
April 30	8:35 PM CDT	EF1	Stone	23.3	100		$125,000
April 30	9:35 PM CDT	EF1	Wright	2.2	100		$60,000
April 30	9:40 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	2.9	100
April 30	9:51 PM CDT	EF1	Texas	5.6	100
April 30	9:58 PM CDT	EF0	Texas	6.0	50
April 30	10:03 PM CDT	EF0	Phelps	0.6	75		$25,000
April 30	10:06 PM CDT	EF0	Phelps	5.1	75
April 30	10:17 PM CDT	EF0	Howell	2.2	100		$12,000
April 30	11:26 PM CDT	EF1	Iron	0.1	30

May 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	6:11 PM CDT	EF0	Pemiscot	2.8	150			$5,000

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:45 PM CDT	Unrated	Jasper	0.2	50

May 21 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 21	1:06 PM CDT	EF0	Greene	1.2	100	$41,000
May 21	2:48 PM CDT	EF1	Webster	7.1	100	$35,000
May 21	3:17 PM CDT	EF1	Wright	23.8	200	$5.0 million
May 21	4:18 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	5.9	800
May 21	5:05 PM CDT	EF1	Callaway	0.6	250
May 21	5:58 PM CDT	EF1	Franklin	5.9	250

May 22 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 22	8:19 PM CDT	EF0	Howard	0.6	40
May 22	8:23 PM CDT	EF0	Jasper	7.9	200
May 22	8:51 PM CDT	EF3	Jasper	11.3	880	3	1	$1.0 million
May 22	10:02 PM CDT	EF0	Audrain	0.8	150
May 22	10:56 PM CDT	EF3	Miller	32.7	1,500		33	$174 million

May 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 23	1:49 AM CDT	EF1	Laclede	11.1	440			$155,000

May 24 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 24	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.3	50
May 24	8:08 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.7	25
May 24	8:19 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	2.7	40

May 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 28	7:58 PM CDT	EF2	Clay	5.8	400

May 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	8:44 AM CDT	EF1	Scott	1.0	75			$50,000

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	4:22 PM CDT	EF0	Holt	0.7	15

September 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 22	5:29 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.1	10

October 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 20	12:57 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	4.7	100			$48,000

October 21 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 21	1:03 AM CDT	EF1	Christian	11.9	150
October 21	1:11 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	1.4	20	$15,000
October 21	1:18 AM CDT	EF1	Christian	6.3	250	$100,000
October 21	2:06 AM CDT	EF1	Douglas	16.3	450	$25,000
October 21	2:13 AM CDT	EF1	Ozark	12.9	450	$100,000
October 21	2:30 AM CDT	EF0	Howell	0.1	50
October 21	2:46 AM CDT	EF1	Texas	1.1	450	$90,000

December 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 28	7:03 PM CST	EF0	Polk	1.4	75			$55,000

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)	Damage
May 20	4:23 PM CDT	EF1	Noble, OK to KS, MO	3.0	100	$75,000
May 20	4:23 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford, KS to MO	10.7	1,200	$1.1 million
May 22	8:05 PM CDT	EF3	Cherokee, KS to MO	9.2	440	$5.3 million
May 22	9:34 PM CDT	EF2	Delaware, OK to MO	16.6	1,100	$500,000

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.