Missouri

Storm History: Buchanan County, Missouri

447 episodes, 673 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Buchanan 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
673
Deaths
3
Injuries
32
Damage
$7.0 million
Episodes
447

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
Hail18102$1.2 million
Tornado143021$4.4 million
Flood9300$200,000
Thunderstorm Wind8900$20,000
Flash Flood7510$1.1 million
Winter Storm1807
Drought1800
Heat1410
Ice Storm800$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Heavy Snow600
Blizzard600
Winter Weather512
High Wind400
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
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 Buchanan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Buchanan CountyEvery warning in Buchanan 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.