Missouri

Storm History: Audrain County, Missouri

374 episodes, 468 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Audrain 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
468
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$6.0 million
Episodes
374

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
Tornado12100$5.7 million
Hail10310$112,000
Thunderstorm Wind6500$25,000
Flash Flood4900$91,000
Winter Storm3300
Heat2702
Excessive Heat2200
Heavy Snow900
Drought900
Flood501$2,000
Ice Storm500
Lightning300
High Wind300
Winter Weather300
Cold/Wind Chill300
Blizzard300
Strong Wind200$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Heavy Rain100
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 Audrain County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Audrain CountyEvery warning in Audrain 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.