Missouri

Storm History: Atchison County, Missouri

301 episodes, 462 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Atchison 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
462
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$8.9 million
Episodes
301

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
Hail13800$1.1 million
Tornado9600$1.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind5500$85,000
Flash Flood5000$6.0 million
Flood3300$200,000
Drought1800
Winter Storm1500$2,000
Heat1300
Heavy Snow1000$100,000
Ice Storm900$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Winter Weather600
Blizzard600
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Atchison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Atchison CountyEvery warning in Atchison 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.