Missouri

Storm History: Dunklin County, Missouri

482 episodes, 678 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dunklin 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
678
Deaths
3
Injuries
39
Damage
$62 million
Episodes
482

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
Hail16000$571,000
Thunderstorm Wind11402$855,000
Tornado103237$34 million
Excessive Heat6100
Flash Flood6000$547,000
Heat5300
Winter Storm3100$3,000
Winter Weather2900
Drought2900
Heavy Snow700$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Flood510$503,000
High Wind500$10,000
Strong Wind400$21,000
Cold/Wind Chill400
Ice Storm200$25 million
Frost/Freeze200
Lightning100$1,000
Tropical Storm100$150,000
Dust Storm100

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 Dunklin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dunklin CountyEvery warning in Dunklin 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.