Missouri

Storm History: Cedar County, Missouri

393 episodes, 510 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cedar 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
510
Deaths
5
Injuries
42
Damage
$114 million
Episodes
393

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
Tornado143542$89 million
Hail13500$324,000
Flash Flood7300$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind4400$190,000
Drought3400$13 million
Winter Storm3100$75,000
Ice Storm1200$1.8 million
Heat900
Flood700$200,000
Winter Weather600
Heavy Snow400$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
High Wind300$5,000
Frost/Freeze300$8.8 million
Blizzard100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Cedar County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cedar CountyEvery warning in Cedar 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.