Storm History: Carter County, Missouri
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carter 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
- 744
- Deaths
- 10
- Injuries
- 92
- Damage
- $53 million
- Episodes
- 670
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 84 | 1 | 2 | $227,000 |
| Tornado | 81 | 8 | 85 | $27 million |
| Dense Fog | 78 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 54 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Heat | 54 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 53 | 0 | 0 | $56,000 |
| Drought | 46 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 1 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 44 | 0 | 0 | $324,000 |
| Winter Weather | 44 | 0 | 1 | |
| Winter Storm | 37 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Excessive Heat | 37 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 22 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Flood | 20 | 0 | 0 | $11 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 8 | 0 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 6 | 0 | 0 | $10 million |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 4 | |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freezing Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 24, 2002
- Wildfire, March 14, 2025
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Tornado, December 24, 1982
- Tornado, April 29, 1984
- Tornado, March 14, 2025
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Flood, March 18, 2008
- Tornado, April 24, 2004
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Flash Flood, March 18, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2014
- Tornado, December 2, 1982
- Tornado, May 21, 1957
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2002
- Tornado, December 31, 2010
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, February 7, 2019
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, March 5, 1996
- Hail, March 5, 1996
- Hail, April 28, 2026
- Hail, February 20, 2007
- Hail, July 7, 1995
- Hail, September 24, 2022
- Hail, April 9, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 24, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2009
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, April 4, 2003
- Hail, May 7, 2002
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 21, 1957
- Tornado, December 24, 1982
- Tornado, April 24, 2002
- Tornado, March 25, 1964
- Tornado, April 29, 1984
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, February 29, 2012
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Tornado, March 14, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Tornado, June 4, 1973
- Tornado, April 16, 1982
- Tornado, December 2, 1982
- Tornado, April 24, 2004
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, April 28, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Dense Fog, February 27, 2026
- Dense Fog, February 10, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Dense Fog, November 23, 2025
- Dense Fog, November 20, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, November 2, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2025
- Drought, October 1, 2025
- Flood, September 23, 2025
- Drought, September 9, 2025
- Hail, August 19, 2025
- Excessive Heat, August 14, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 16, 2025
- Tornado, May 16, 2025
- Dense Fog, May 12, 2025
- Hail, May 1, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- High Wind, March 19, 2025
- Wildfire, March 14, 2025
- Tornado, March 14, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 20, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2025
- Dense Fog, January 30, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2025
- Dense Fog, December 28, 2024
- Dense Fog, November 15, 2024
- Dense Fog, November 9, 2024
- Flash Flood, November 4, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, October 17, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, October 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 2024
- Heat, August 15, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 29, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 14, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 3, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 25, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Dense Fog, May 18, 2024
- Dense Fog, April 29, 2024
- Dense Fog, April 23, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, April 22, 2024
- Drought, April 9, 2024
- Dense Fog, March 2, 2024
- Strong Wind, February 27, 2024
- Dense Fog, January 24, 2024
- Dense Fog, January 24, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, October 30, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 20, 2023
- Heat, August 5, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2023
- Heat, July 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2023
- Heat, June 25, 2023
- Hail, April 20, 2023
- Strong Wind, April 20, 2023
- Strong Wind, April 5, 2023
- Tornado, April 5, 2023
- Strong Wind, April 1, 2023
- Strong Wind, March 31, 2023
- Flash Flood, March 24, 2023
- Flash Flood, March 3, 2023
- High Wind, February 27, 2023
- Flood, February 8, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Dense Fog, December 9, 2022
- Dense Fog, December 6, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Dense Fog, November 25, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 12, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Frost/Freeze, October 18, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Hail, September 24, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2022
- Heat, August 3, 2022
- Heat, August 1, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2022
- Heat, July 26, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 22, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2022
- Hail, July 17, 2022
- Hail, July 16, 2022
- Drought, July 11, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 4, 2022
- Heat, June 22, 2022
- Excessive Heat, June 12, 2022
- Dense Fog, June 6, 2022
- Hail, May 15, 2022
- Flood, May 5, 2022
- Tornado, April 30, 2022
- Frost/Freeze, April 19, 2022
- Strong Wind, April 10, 2022
- Strong Wind, March 30, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 11, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2022
- Strong Wind, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2022
- Flood, December 18, 2021
- Hail, December 5, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, November 4, 2021
- Heat, August 23, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2021
- Heat, August 9, 2021
- Lightning, July 31, 2021
- Excessive Heat, July 30, 2021
- Excessive Heat, July 29, 2021
- Tornado, July 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2021
- Strong Wind, May 9, 2021
- Hail, May 6, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, April 21, 2021
- Strong Wind, April 10, 2021
- Hail, April 9, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, April 1, 2021
- Strong Wind, March 10, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 27, 2021
- Flood, January 25, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2021
- Strong Wind, December 27, 2020
- Strong Wind, November 14, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, November 1, 2020
- Flood, October 28, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, October 5, 2020
- Dense Fog, September 12, 2020
- Flood, September 1, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 31, 2020
- Dense Fog, August 22, 2020
- Heat, August 10, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2020
- Heat, July 17, 2020
- Heat, July 15, 2020
- Strong Wind, June 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, May 9, 2020
- Tornado, May 4, 2020
- Tornado, May 3, 2020
- Strong Wind, April 25, 2020
- Frost/Freeze, April 15, 2020
- Strong Wind, April 13, 2020
- Dense Fog, March 18, 2020
- Dense Fog, March 12, 2020
- Tornado, March 12, 2020
- Tornado, March 2, 2020
- Tornado, January 10, 2020
- Dense Fog, December 13, 2019
- Strong Wind, November 26, 2019
- Flood, November 22, 2019
- Winter Weather, November 11, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, October 12, 2019
- Hail, August 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2019
- Excessive Heat, August 12, 2019
- Dense Fog, August 8, 2019
- Excessive Heat, July 17, 2019
- Heat, July 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2019
- Hail, June 21, 2019
- Hail, June 16, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, April 15, 2019
- Strong Wind, April 11, 2019
- Frost/Freeze, April 1, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 13, 2019
- Strong Wind, March 9, 2019
- Winter Weather, March 3, 2019
- Strong Wind, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 7, 2019
- Dense Fog, February 5, 2019
- Dense Fog, February 2, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2019
- Dense Fog, November 30, 2018
- Strong Wind, November 25, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, October 21, 2018
- Dense Fog, September 27, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2018
- Hail, July 20, 2018
- Excessive Heat, July 10, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2018
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2018
- Heat, June 29, 2018
- Hail, June 26, 2018
- Tornado, May 31, 2018
- Strong Wind, April 12, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, April 8, 2018
- Winter Weather, April 7, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2018
- Strong Wind, April 3, 2018
- Tornado, April 3, 2018
- Hail, March 16, 2018
- Dense Fog, February 17, 2018
- Strong Wind, February 15, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2018
- Dense Fog, January 27, 2018
- Strong Wind, January 22, 2018
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2018
- Dense Fog, January 9, 2018
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Drought, January 1, 2018
- Strong Wind, December 13, 2017
- Drought, December 5, 2017
- Strong Wind, November 18, 2017
- Dense Fog, November 4, 2017
- Dense Fog, September 14, 2017
- Heat, August 21, 2017
- Dense Fog, August 15, 2017
- Heat, July 26, 2017
- Excessive Heat, July 20, 2017
- Tornado, May 27, 2017
- Strong Wind, May 17, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2017
- Strong Wind, May 5, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
Earlier years, state by state:
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Tornadoes in Carter CountyEvery warning in Carter 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.