Missouri

Storms in Missouri in 2020

1,542 events in 187 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Missouri in 2020, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Missouri in 2020 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

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The year

Events
1,542
Deaths
9
Injuries
9
Damage
$25 million
Episodes
187

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind40500$831,000
Hail27410$11 million
Flash Flood23326$2.2 million
Flood22030$135,000
Strong Wind6900$88,000
Dense Fog5000
Winter Storm4821$10,000
Winter Weather4800
Frost/Freeze4000
Heavy Rain3900
Heat3700
Drought2900
Tornado2110$10 million
Heavy Snow1602
Lightning600$15,000
Ice Storm500
Funnel Cloud200

Every episode, month by month

January 2020

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September 2020

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November 2020

December 2020

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.