Missouri

Storm History: Cooper County, Missouri

402 episodes, 544 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cooper 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
544
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$2.8 million
Episodes
402

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
Hail14700$45,000
Flood11500
Tornado10702$1.4 million
Flash Flood5310$17,000
Drought2800
Thunderstorm Wind2500$55,000
Winter Storm1800
Heat1300
Heavy Snow1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Ice Storm600$1.0 million
Winter Weather300
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind200$3,000
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100
Wildfire101$200,000

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 Cooper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cooper CountyEvery warning in Cooper 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.