Storm History: Greene County, Missouri

998 episodes, 2,307 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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: 2,307
Deaths: 20
Injuries: 514
Damage: $633 million
Episodes: 998

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	696	10	146	$471 million
Flash Flood	598	4	3	$21 million
Hail	567	0	1	$6.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind	220	0	0	$974,000
Flood	60	0	0	$1.3 million
Winter Storm	36	0	13	$300,000
Drought	36	0	0	$5.2 million
Ice Storm	21	0	4	$122 million
Winter Weather	19	0	19	$600,000
High Wind	12	0	0	$161,000
Heat	10	2	215
Heavy Snow	6	0	1	$275,000
Wildfire	6	0	0	$255,000
Lightning	5	4	0	$405,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	5	0	0	$50,000
Frost/Freeze	3	0	0	$3.8 million
Excessive Heat	3	0	112	$25,000
Heavy Rain	2	0	0
Blizzard	1	0	0	$40,000
Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Greene County Every warning in Greene County since 1986 Every 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.