Yes, Hurricanes Have Hit Missouri — More Than Once

I'm gonna take a wild guess that when you think of hurricanes, you don't think of Missouri. Did you know that more than one hurricane has actually made its way over the Show Me State? It's true and there are satellite photos and data to prove it.

There's a fascinating new look at hurricanes in unusual places that's just been shared recently by Swegle Studios on YouTube. Among them are hurricanes and tropical storms that maintained most of their strength even as far north as Missouri. One of them was Hurricane Ike that formed on September 1, 2008. It first impacted Louisiana and Texas, but it remained a hurricane and then tropical storm as it passed over Missouri.

The satellite images prove the point that Ike was still a rotating tropical storm as it passed over the Midwest and Missouri.

They also mentioned Hurricane Carla which slammed into Texas in September of 1961. It was the most intense tropical storm landfall in Texas in the 20th century according to Wikipedia. It not only passed over Missouri as a tropical storm, but even dumped unbelievable amounts of rain over Illinois.

Finally, there was tropical storm Cristobal in 2020. It's path brought it directly through the heart of Missouri with little deviation as shown by National Weather Service data.

No, it's not often that a hurricane hits the Gulf coast with enough strength to remain a strong tropical storm with rotation by the time it reaches Missouri, but it can and does happen.