Missouri

Storm History: Dade County, Missouri

415 episodes, 549 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dade 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
549
Deaths
2
Injuries
7
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
415

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
Hail14100$739,000
Tornado12906$10 million
Flash Flood10910$1.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind5500$349,000
Drought3400$11 million
Winter Storm3201$60,000
Ice Storm1100$750,000
Heat910
Flood600$1.5 million
Heavy Snow500$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Winter Weather400
High Wind300$2,000
Frost/Freeze300$9.7 million
Heavy Rain200
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 Dade County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dade CountyEvery warning in Dade 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.