Missouri

Storm History: Crawford County, Missouri

352 episodes, 478 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crawford 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
478
Deaths
2
Injuries
35
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
352

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
Hail12911$6,000
Tornado11905$27 million
Thunderstorm Wind5100$135,000
Flash Flood4911$619,000
Winter Storm3201
Heat30027
Excessive Heat2500
Drought900
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm600$754,000
Flood400
Heavy Rain300
Sleet300
Cold/Wind Chill300
High Wind200
Winter Weather200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Blizzard100

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 Crawford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crawford CountyEvery warning in Crawford 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.