Missouri

Storm History: Dent County, Missouri

354 episodes, 497 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dent 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
497
Deaths
4
Injuries
4
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
354

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
Tornado12124$17 million
Flash Flood11010$2.6 million
Hail9700$364,000
Thunderstorm Wind4600$138,000
Flood3610$485,000
Winter Storm3200$160,000
Drought1700$1.9 million
Ice Storm1000
Heat900
Wildfire400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heavy Snow300$5,000
Winter Weather300
Frost/Freeze200$2.7 million
High Wind100
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 Dent County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dent CountyEvery warning in Dent 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.