Missouri

Storm History: Adair County, Missouri

300 episodes, 406 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adair County, Missouri: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
406
Deaths
4
Injuries
11
Damage
$7.4 million
Episodes
300

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail10801$577,000
Tornado8226$5.2 million
Flash Flood6500$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$85,000
Winter Storm2320
Drought2200
Flood1500$1,000
Heat1200
Ice Storm1100$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Heavy Snow700$200,000
Winter Weather704$50,000
Blizzard500
High Wind300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Lightning100$200,000
Frost/Freeze100

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Adair County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Adair CountyEvery warning in Adair County since 1986Every county in Missouri

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.