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NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database

Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Marceline, MO

Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.

No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Marceline, Missouri since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 44 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 8 of them rated EF3 or stronger.

Hurricanes
0

within 75 mi, since 1851

Tropical storms
0

below hurricane strength

Tornadoes
44

within 25 mi, since 1950

EF3 or stronger
8

1 deaths in all

Tornadoes within 25 miles of Marceline

By decade

  • 2020s4
  • 2010s4
  • 2000s5
  • 1990s4
  • 1980s8
  • 1970s8(7 EF3+)
  • 1960s8(1 EF3+)
  • 1950s3
Strongest tornadoes near Marceline, Missouri
DateRatingDistancePathKilled / injured
Apr 23, 1975F414 mi28.2 mi1 / 4
May 4, 1977F419 mi48.6 mi0 / 1
Jun 12, 1970F48 mi16.1 mi0 / 0
Apr 21, 1967F46 mi59 mi0 / 2
Apr 23, 1975F311 mi14 mi0 / 2
May 5, 1971F37 mi3.8 mi0 / 6
May 5, 1971F34 mi0.1 mi0 / 12
Jun 12, 1970F324 mi8.5 mi0 / 1
May 6, 2023EF216 mi12.38 mi0 / 0
Oct 24, 2021EF222 mi31.37 mi0 / 0
Apr 8, 1999F22 mi53.5 mi0 / 2
Jun 20, 1970F224 mi1.7 mi0 / 2

The strongest 12 of 44, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.

How to read this page

A storm is listed when the centre of its track passed within 75 miles of Marceline while it was at least a tropical storm, which is the reach of damaging wind and rain for a typical hurricane. Being on the list does not mean the city took a direct hit; the "closest" column says how near the centre came. Tornadoes are counted when any part of the path came within 25 miles.

Tornado records before the 1990s are thinner, because weak tornadoes in open country often went unreported before Doppler radar and mobile phones. A rise in the decade counts is mostly better reporting, not a change in the weather.

Tracks come from the National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 database, tornadoes from the Storm Prediction Center's database. Both are the official federal records and both are revised as old storms are re-analysed.

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