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Storm of The Year:
1st Place - June 3
1st Place - June 3
Tornadic QLCS line segment from Kansas City, MO to Buckner, MO producing an EF1 tornado in Independence, MO and epic shelf cloud and tornadic structure. Triggered first PDS tornado warning in KC metro of 2020's decade.
2nd Place - June 8
2nd Place - June 8
Monster classic to HP supercell from southeast Kansas to southwest Missouri with 2 inch hail near Fort Scott, KS and severe winds and mothership structure near Joplin, MO.
3rd Place - March 14
3rd Place - March 14
Intense tornado-warned supercell in the Missouri Ozarks with gnarly RFD gustfront structure and frequent lightning.
Honorable Mention 1 - May 18
Honorable Mention 1 - May 18
Beautiful golden-hour low-precipitation barber pole supercell near Freedom, OK with epic structure and billowing updraft. Fog hidden monster cyclic tornadic supercell intercepted later near Pratt, KS with near constant lightning is also worth remarking.
Honorable Mention 2 - June 26
Honorable Mention 2 - June 26
Unreal sunset shelf cloud ahead of collapsing multicell storms in northwest Missouri with epic whale's mouth and lightning.
March 2025 was a very active month for severe thunderstorms. This was due to a few notable outbreaks in the Midwest, South, and East, including the major tornado outbreak of March 14-16.
Easter Sunday (April 20) brought supercells and a potent QLCS to Missouri and Illinois, leading to an outbreak of tornadoes.
The May 15-20, 2025 tornado outbreak sequence impacted most of the CONUS. May 18 resulted in a major tornado outbreak in the Plains, which featured the fog-hidden tornadic supercell responsible for multiple strong-to-violent tornadoes from Greensburg to Plevna, KS.
The Raytown/Independence tornadoes of June 3, 2025 prompted the first PDS tornado warning in the Kansas City metro area since 2019.
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