SGF Severe Weather Climatology (2024)

Radar: Springfield MO

37.23 N - 93.40W

Period: 1980-2006Range: 124 nm

Database Overview

All severe weather reports during the period are plotted. Blue dots represent damaging wind, green dots represent large hail, and red dots represent tornadoes. [Click to enlarge]

	All Rpts	Sig Rpts	Avg Days
Hail	10430	430	48
Wind	8632	581	52
Tornadoes	926	186	13
Total	19988	1197	69

Significant severe weather reports during the period are plotted. Only tornadoes F2 or stronger, wind gusts of 65 knots or stronger, and hail of 2" diameter or larger are plotted. [Click to enlarge]

Category	Rank*	Freq/mi²
Any Severe	9	1:65
Sig Severe	20	1:1,090
Tornadoes	45	1:1,408
F2+ Torn	25	1:7,012

* Compared to 141 national radar coverage areas studied.

Annual Report Information

Plot of annual severe weather reports in the search area. The dashed magenta line denotes a 5 year running average of all reports.

20 year report increase: 522%
10 year report increase: 73%
5 year report increase: 51%

See annual table below

Daily Report Information

Plot of daily severe weather reports in the search area. Lines denote a 7 day running mean.

Maximum daily value:
7.4on 06 May

Primary Season:
Mar 26- Aug 26

See monthly table below

Hourly Report Information

Plot of hourly severe weather reports in the search area. Values are in percent of total, and have been rounded to the nearest hour (UTC).

Maximum hourly value:
10%at 00 UTC

See hourly table below

Climatological Threat Potential

Threat	Avg Prob of Occurrence	Return Interval	Natl Rank
Any Tornado	0.034%	2904 yrs	22
F2+ Tornado	0.028%	3623 yrs	26

This table represents the average annual probability and return interval of each event for any point within the search domain. Read details of computational method

Annual Totals

Year	Hail		Wind		Tornado		Total
	Rpt	Days	Rpt	Days	Rpt	Days	Rpt	Days
1980	55	28	88	40	11	4	77	53
1981	61	23	107	37	28	12	117	52
1982	173	43	215	56	107	24	387	74
1983	157	36	132	52	28	12	213	63
1984	164	40	127	39	41	12	246	59
1985	147	31	137	43	12	8	171	51
1986	121	30	167	38	18	5	157	51
1987	84	28	180	38	6	6	96	51
1988	115	25	144	43	25	7	165	52
1989	169	34	116	33	11	6	191	49
1990	141	23	110	35	40	13	221	45
1991	220	44	131	42	22	11	264	60
1992	292	44	276	44	24	12	340	62
1993	318	54	230	56	35	18	388	73
1994	397	50	352	56	30	17	457	70
1995	506	67	505	63	39	18	584	82
1996	625	71	445	62	32	11	689	88
1997	321	49	281	47	19	9	359	65
1998	518	68	481	69	13	8	544	89
1999	401	57	522	61	45	22	491	77
2000	421	54	641	61	36	15	493	78
2001	603	70	623	63	35	14	673	83
2002	554	59	400	56	15	4	584	75
2003	1443	80	562	69	87	17	1617	88
2004	547	57	420	59	33	17	613	71
2005	649	66	635	79	63	18	775	102
2006	1228	77	605	69	71	18	1370	95
AVG	386	48	320	52	34	13	740	69

Violent Tornadoes

Date	F	Deaths	Injuries
1982 03-Apr 0015 UTC	F4	2	28
1984 15-Mar 2340 UTC	F4	2	13
1991 27-Apr 0245 UTC	F4		22
1991 30-Nov 0005 UTC	F4	2	64
1996 15-Apr 0010 UTC	F4	7	35
2002 24-Apr 2113 UTC	F4		16
2003 04-May 2135 UTC	F4	4	30

Monthly Averages

Month	Hail	Wind	Torn	Total
Jan	5	4		9
Feb	6	7	1	13
Mar	49	18	5	71
Apr	96	36	7	138
May	101	55	9	165
Jun	44	52	3	99
Jul	28	56	1	85
Aug	17	45		62
Sep	15	23	2	40
Oct	6	7	1	14
Nov	12	13	3	28
Dec	6	3	2	10

Hourly Averages

UTC	Hail	Wind	Torn	Total
00	1039	742	131	1912
01	873	658	118	1649
02	779	641	97	1517
03	739	601	62	1402
04	542	535	44	1121
05	372	443	33	848
06	307	344	18	669
07	247	334	19	600
08	197	326	17	540
09	169	254	8	431
10	144	207	8	359
11	129	180	8	317
12	157	146	12	315
13	148	122	10	280
14	172	137	5	314
15	149	126	9	284
16	104	134	14	252
17	162	97	14	273
18	236	160	13	409
19	336	262	22	620
20	539	373	26	938
21	810	541	53	1404
22	994	649	80	1723
23	1086	620	105	1811

Click Here for tabular data (F2+ tornadoes).