Missouri

Storm History: Boone County, Missouri

652 episodes, 977 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boone 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
977
Deaths
5
Injuries
173
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
652

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.

Open the live radar over Boone County

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
Hail375021$168,000
Tornado199036$35 million
Thunderstorm Wind12505$369,000
Flash Flood11921$768,000
Heat34363
Winter Storm3300$639,000
Excessive Heat2207
Flood1502$40,000
Lightning801$250,000
Heavy Snow800
Drought800
High Wind700
Ice Storm600$653,000
Winter Weather5035
Cold/Wind Chill300
Blizzard300
Strong Wind200$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100
Sleet102

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 Boone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boone CountyEvery warning in Boone 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.