Missouri

Storm History: Caldwell County, Missouri

220 episodes, 308 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Caldwell 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
308
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$3.6 million
Episodes
220

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
Hail8700$163,000
Tornado7614$3.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind2700$117,000
Flash Flood2700$1,000
Winter Storm2100
Drought1900
Heat1400
Ice Storm1000$210,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Flood500
Heavy Snow400
Winter Weather406
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Blizzard200
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 Caldwell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Caldwell CountyEvery warning in Caldwell 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.