Tornadoes · United States · Missouri

2025 tornadoes in Missouri

96 tornadoes touched down in Missouri in 2025, 175 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 13 people and injured 53.

2024 The whole country in 2025

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 2025

March 14 22 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 14	6:40 PM CDT	EF1	Webster	19.8	400			$275,000
March 14	7:12 PM CDT	EF1	Laclede	22.3	200			$320,000
March 14	7:42 PM CDT	EF1	Phelps	10.2	400			$25,000
March 14	7:50 PM CDT	EF2	Phelps	10.3	500		1	$2.5 million
March 14	8:29 PM CDT	EF1	Franklin	19.8	100			$148,000
March 14	8:33 PM CDT	EF1	Franklin	5.6	220			$35,000
March 14	8:52 PM CDT	EF2	Franklin	17.8	644			$6.5 million
March 14	9:11 PM CDT	EF3	Oregon to AR	57.2	800			$2.5 million
March 14	9:16 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Louis	20.7	880			$1.2 million
March 14	9:18 PM CDT	EF2	Jefferson	25.3	850			$905,000
March 14	9:36 PM CDT	EF3	Oregon	23.5	800			$800,000
March 14	9:38 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Louis to IL	11.0	1,320			$1.1 million
March 14	10:20 PM CDT	EF3	Reynolds	29.9	1,525	3	2	$5.0 million
March 14	10:28 PM CDT	EF3	Carter	30.6	325	2		$3.5 million
March 14	10:48 PM CDT	EF1	Audrain	6.8	770			$50,000
March 14	11:15 PM CDT	EF3	Wayne	28.6	500	1	1	$4.5 million
March 14	11:25 PM CDT	EF2	Bollinger to IL	33.1	800			$5.2 million
March 14	11:27 PM CDT	EF3	Butler	17.9	350	1		$15 million
March 14	11:50 PM CDT	EF1	Stoddard	6.1	25			$100,000
March 14	12:05 AM CDT	EF1	Stoddard	4.6	50			$500,000
March 14	12:17 AM CDT	EF2	Scott	6.4	100			$1.1 million
March 14	12:56 AM CDT	EF2	Dunklin	19.4	550			$550,000

March 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 15	1:03 AM CDT	EF1	New Madrid	4.5	50			$900,000

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	5:02 PM CDT	EF1	Ripley	8.6	50			$55,000

April 2 11 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 2	7:29 AM CDT	EF2	Vernon	6.5	200	$500,000
April 2	7:30 AM CDT	EF1	Vernon	16.6	200	$1.2 million
April 2	8:34 AM CDT	EF2	Cooper	6.1	200	$100,000
April 2	3:13 PM CDT	EF3	Crawford	21.9	200	$685,000
April 2	3:16 PM CDT	EF1	Howell	1.1	350	$10,000
April 2	5:32 PM CDT	EF1	Ripley	1.1	125	$185,000
April 2	6:13 PM CDT	EF2	Wayne	8.3	175	$630,000
April 2	6:32 PM CDT	EF2	Stoddard	14.7	600	$20 million
April 2	6:36 PM CDT	EF1	Butler	13.4	125	$2.0 million
April 2	6:56 PM CDT	EF1	Cape Girardeau to IL	8.0	150	$765,000
April 2	7:30 PM CDT	EF1	Scott	1.0	250	$600,000

April 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 18	10:15 PM CDT	EF0	Greene	0.2	50			$40,000

April 20 13 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 20	1:31 PM CDT	EF2	Callaway	2.6	100	1	$125,000
April 20	2:29 PM CDT	EF0	Barton	19.8	300		$3.4 million
April 20	4:21 PM CDT	EF0	Christian	1.3	50		$15,000
April 20	4:30 PM CDT	EF0	Morgan	0.7	75		$20,000
April 20	4:35 PM CDT	EF0	Douglas	2.8	50		$100,000
April 20	4:46 PM CDT	EF0	Webster	1.1	30		$100,000
April 20	4:59 PM CDT	EF0	Wright	1.8	50		$25,000
April 20	5:08 PM CDT	EF1	Wright	2.1	400
April 20	5:18 PM CDT	EF1	Boone	3.3	100
April 20	5:33 PM CDT	EF1	Boone	2.3	100		$22,000
April 20	5:56 PM CDT	EF1	Audrain	0.3	50		$60,000
April 20	6:01 PM CDT	EF0	Shannon	1.5	250
April 20	6:19 PM CDT	EF0	Pike	0.3	25		$15,000

April 29 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 29	8:55 AM CDT	EF1	Lawrence	4.4	100	$200,000
April 29	9:00 AM CDT	EF1	Lawrence	5.2	100	$250,000
April 29	9:09 AM CDT	EF0	Lawrence	5.3	50	$100,000
April 29	9:24 AM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.6	50	$120,000
April 29	9:30 AM CDT	EF0	Christian	4.9	25	$250,000
April 29	9:35 AM CDT	EF0	Newton	2.1	50	$80,000
April 29	9:40 AM CDT	EF0	Greene	8.4	100	$100,000
April 29	12:24 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	4.2	150	$50,000

May 16 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 16	1:25 PM CDT	EF1	Texas	2.4	100			$20,000
May 16	2:39 PM CDT	EF2	Saint Louis to IL	23.2	1,750	4	38	$1.6 billion
May 16	2:53 PM CDT	EF2	Iron	3.3	150
May 16	3:54 PM CDT	EF3	Stoddard	16.1	200	2	10	$15 million
May 16	3:59 PM CDT	EF0	Scott	0.6	100			$10,000
May 16	4:03 PM CDT	EF2	Cape Girardeau	1.4	225			$175,000
May 16	6:40 PM CDT	EF1	Scott	1.3	100			$175,000

May 19 17 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 19	6:55 PM CDT	EF1	St. Clair to OK, AR	4.6	50	$150,000
May 19	7:15 PM CDT	EF1	Henry	3.5	200
May 19	7:24 PM CDT	EF1	Benton	1.3	500	$115,000
May 19	7:28 PM CDT	EF1	Benton	4.3	500	$148,000
May 19	7:35 PM CDT	EF1	Benton	4.4	300	$160,000
May 19	8:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Jefferson	2.4	1
May 19	8:32 PM CDT	EF0	Buchanan	4.3	20
May 19	8:56 PM CDT	EF1	Washington	2.8	50
May 19	10:18 PM CDT	EF1	Dent	6.4	50	$30,000
May 19	10:20 PM CDT	EF0	Dent	1.0	75	$80,000
May 19	10:21 PM CDT	EF0	Dent	4.3	50	$55,000
May 19	10:28 PM CDT	EF0	Dent	1.9	50	$25,000
May 19	10:39 PM CDT	EF0	Washington	2.2	140
May 19	10:40 PM CDT	EF0	Reynolds	1.6	50
May 19	10:50 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford	1.0	270	$60,000
May 19	11:31 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Francois	4.2	500	$30,000
May 19	12:02 AM CDT	EF0	Sainte Genevieve	1.3	25

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	1:08 AM CDT	EF1	Cape Girardeau	1.7	150			$200,000

June 3 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 3	2:24 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.8	40
June 3	2:35 PM CDT	EF1	Jackson	3.7	50
June 3	4:37 PM CDT	EF0	Wright	0.4	100	$8,000

June 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 4	2:50 PM CDT	EF1	Saint Louis	6.8	300			$94,000

June 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 6	7:27 AM CDT	EF1	Barry	3.2	100			$50,000

June 7 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 7	7:05 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	4.9	300
June 7	8:35 PM CDT	EF0	Saint Francois	1.3	65	$25,000
June 7	9:52 PM CDT	EF1	Cape Girardeau	3.5	50	$110,000
June 7	10:23 PM CDT	EF1	Cape Girardeau	1.6	125	$90,000

June 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 18	10:55 AM CDT	EF1	Calhoun to IL	3.6	100

July 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 11	8:21 PM CDT	EF0	Cass	0.9	200

August 9 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 9	6:22 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby	0.4	75			$90,000
August 9	6:23 PM CDT	EF1	Shelby	3.1	100			$105,000

August 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 10	7:10 PM CDT	Unrated	Clark	0.1	10

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
March 14	8:34 PM CDT	EF3	Baxter, AR to MO	35.5	1,200	3	4	$7.0 million
March 14	9:11 PM CDT	EF4	Larkin tornado, Arkansas and Missouri	116.0	1,400		5	$2.8 million
April 20	1:57 PM CDT	EF1	Cherokee, KS to MO	24.1	250			$1.0 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.