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Missouri Severe Weather Outlook
Friday, Oct 9: Missouri has thunderstorms in the outlook but no severe risk, and none through Sunday.
The Storm Prediction Center's outlook for Missouri over the next three days, the SevereWX forecast for each Missouri city we cover, and what a typical severe weather year looks like here.
SPC outlook for Missouri
- Day 1 (Friday, October 9): General thunderstorms
- Day 2 (Saturday, October 10): General thunderstorms
- Day 3 (Sunday, October 11): No severe risk
Missouri city forecasts
- Joplin, MO severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Kansas City, MO severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- St. Louis, MO severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Springfield, MO severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Columbia, MO severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
Severe weather in Missouri, by the numbers
Missouri averages 49.1 tornadoes a year (1996–2025), about 6.2 of them rated EF2 or stronger.
60% of them touch down between March and May, and May alone accounts for 30%. The busiest year on record in that span was 2025, with 96.
Storm reports average about 392 for large hail a year (34.1 of them 2 inches or larger) and 585 for damaging wind (2016–2025).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Tornadoes are counted in the state where they began. One storm can produce many reports. spc.noaa.gov