Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2021 tornadoes in Missouri

46 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2021, 32 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 4.

2020 2022 The whole country in 2021

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 2021

March 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	5:12 PM CDT	EF0	Cass	0.0	10

March 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 17	5:30 PM CDT	EF1	Barry	23.7	75			$60,000

April 28 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 28	9:30 AM CDT	EF0	Taney	0.1	50	$25,000
April 28	9:37 AM CDT	EF0	Taney	0.6	50	$125,000
April 28	9:55 AM CDT	EF0	Christian	0.4	50	$5,000
April 28	11:13 AM CDT	EF0	Douglas	1.9	100	$250,000
April 28	2:50 PM CDT	EF1	Bollinger	3.4	225

May 4 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 4	2:55 AM CDT	EF0	Pemiscot	2.7	90			$50,000
May 4	3:19 AM CDT	EF1	Mississippi	3.7	400			$85,000

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	6:06 PM CDT	EF0	DeKalb	0.9	50			$5,000

May 27 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 27	11:51 AM CDT	EF1	Polk	0.1	50			$300,000
May 27	12:08 PM CDT	EF1	Polk	1.2	50			$75,000

June 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 11	2:29 PM CDT	EF0	Clay	0.0	15

June 24 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
June 24	9:13 PM CDT	EF0	Grundy	1.7	25
June 24	9:17 PM CDT	EF0	Grundy	5.6	50
June 24	9:18 PM CDT	EF1	Grundy	4.9	75
June 24	11:27 PM CDT	Unrated	Shelby	0.1	10
June 24	12:01 AM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.2	50
June 24	12:08 AM CDT	EF0	Marion	0.1	25

July 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 10	8:18 PM CDT	EF2	Stoddard	5.8	175			$2.0 million

July 31 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 31	10:50 AM CDT	EF0	Saint Francois	0.9	120			$20,000

August 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 8	7:14 PM CDT	EF0	Butler	0.1	50			$15,000

October 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 11	1:08 AM CDT	EF1	Newton	3.3	90			$75,000
October 11	4:44 AM CDT	EF0	Jasper	2.4	50			$80,000

October 24 15 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
October 24	3:27 PM CDT	EF1	Clinton	4.6	40		$10,000
October 24	3:36 PM CDT	EF0	Daviess	0.1	20		$20,000
October 24	4:16 PM CDT	EF0	Livingston	0.1	50		$5,000
October 24	4:31 PM CDT	EF2	Livingston	31.4	150		$250,000
October 24	4:54 PM CDT	EF0	Pettis	0.5	10
October 24	4:59 PM CDT	EF0	Pettis	1.2	10
October 24	6:34 PM CDT	EF1	Dent	8.2	400		$225,000
October 24	6:53 PM CDT	EF1	Camden	2.2	100		$80,000
October 24	7:43 PM CDT	EF1	Reynolds	1.2	100
October 24	8:23 PM CDT	EF3	Fredericktown tornado	16.7	450	1
October 24	8:29 PM CDT	EF1	Iron	10.2	250
October 24	8:47 PM CDT	EF3	Coffman tornado	18.8	880	1	$200,000
October 24	9:02 PM CDT	EF2	Sainte Genevieve to IL	16.5	400		$3.0 million
October 24	9:42 PM CDT	EF1	Perry	2.3	25		$10,000
October 24	11:04 PM CDT	EF1	Wayne	24.5	400		$420,000

December 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 5	10:02 PM CST	EF1	Christian	3.4	100			$150,000

December 10 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 10	6:13 PM CST	EF1	Webster	6.3	75			$350,000
December 10	6:55 PM CST	EF0	Montgomery	4.3	50			$25,000
December 10	7:32 PM CST	EF3	Defiance–Harvester tornado	27.3	150	1	2	$3.4 million
December 10	7:37 PM CST	EF1	Stone	0.6	75			$500,000
December 10	7:49 PM CST	EF1	Taney	1.6	100			$120,000
December 10	10:05 PM CST	EF2	Reynolds	6.9	300

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
December 10	7:07 PM CST	EF4	Monette–Braggadocio tornado, Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee	81.2	1,800	8	14	$14 million

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.