Missouri

Storm History: Carter County, Missouri

670 episodes, 744 events since 1957

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.

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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
Hail8412$227,000
Tornado81885$27 million
Dense Fog7800
Frost/Freeze5400$30,000
Heat5400
Strong Wind5300$56,000
Drought4600
Flash Flood4510$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind4400$324,000
Winter Weather4401
Winter Storm3700$1.3 million
Excessive Heat3700
Heavy Snow2200$100,000
Flood2000$11 million
Cold/Wind Chill1400
High Wind800$2.1 million
Ice Storm600$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Wildfire600$10 million
Lightning204
Heavy Rain200
Freezing Fog100

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 Carter County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

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.