Missouri

Storm History: Grundy County, Missouri

281 episodes, 499 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grundy 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
499
Deaths
0
Injuries
11
Damage
$4.0 million
Episodes
281

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
Hail15600$29,000
Tornado13009$943,000
Flash Flood7600$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind3900$58,000
Winter Storm2100
Drought1900
Heat1200
Ice Storm1000$5,000
Heavy Snow902$3.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Winter Weather700
Blizzard500
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Flood200$2,000
High Wind100
Frost/Freeze100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Grundy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Grundy CountyEvery warning in Grundy 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.