Hail in Missouri
Every hail event the National Weather Service has filed in Missouri, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
The most significant on the map
The most significant hail episodes in Missouri.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 20,443
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 9
- Damage
- $2.1 billion
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 22 to 23, 2011A strong upper level trough across the central plains region and a strong upper level disturbance along with a frontal boundary in the area produced numerous severe storms with a few supercells across southeast Kansas.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 20, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 10, 2008Three tornadoes were spawned from supercell thunderstorms that developed over southeast Kansas. These storms quickly moved into southwest Missouri causing devestating damage to homes, businesses, and trees in Newton, Barry, and Jasper counties.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 21, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, January 24, 1967
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 19, 2018Severe storms impacted the region during the afternoon and evening of July 19, 2018.
- Flash Flooding and Flooding in Missouri, December 26 to 28, 2015A slow moving and strong weather system caused several rounds of very heavy and record breaking rainfall to occur across the Missouri Ozarks which led to historic and deadly flooding.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, June 22, 1969
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 2, 2006Straight line winds caused damage to a building and the Malden Airport. Some campers were rolled. Trees were uprooted.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 14 to 15, 2025A major outbreak of severe storms including tornadoes, damaging winds, and very large hail occurred across southeast Missouri in the late evening of the 14th and into the very early morning hours on the 15th.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 16, 2025During the afternoon of May 16th, numerous supercells developed ahead of a cold front and within a favorable environment for high-end severe weather. These produced widespread severe weather including 2 to 2.5 inch hail, wind damage, and two tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 4, 1977
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 24, 1975
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, January 7 to 8, 2008An unusual mid winter tornado outbreak occurred over southwest and central Missouri. 31 tornadoes struck the region within a 15 hour time frame on 7 January into early morning 8 January. Two tornadoes intensified to EF-3 status while five tornadoes caused EF-2 damage.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 5, 1971
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, December 30 to 31, 2010Between the evening of the 30th and the morning of the 31st, two separate lines of thunderstorms produced significant severe weather across southwest Missouri including damaging wind, large hail, and deadly tornadoes.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, February 28 to 29, 2012A strong system moved across the Midwest and brought a round of severe storms to the Ozarks late on the 28th and early on the 29th of February.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 22, 1981
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 29 to 30, 2004Tornado crossed into Buchanan county 5 northwest of Camden Point. Tornado destroyed a barn, and threw an axle from a heavy truck nearly 300 yards.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, May 20 to 23, 2019Multiple rounds of storms producing heavy rainfall, severe winds, hail and tornadoes moved across the Missouri Ozarks from May 20th and into the early morning hours of May 24th as upper level disturbances interacted with a slow moving but powerful storm system over the central…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, April 28 to 29, 2012An area of low pressure moved east along Interstate 70 corridor with a warm front extending eastward across southern Illinois and a cold front trailing southwestward along I-44.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, March 14, 2025Severe thunderstorms occurred during the late afternoon and evening hours of March 14th. Seven tornadoes occurred east of Springfield including an EF-3 tornado in Bakersfield, Missouri. Large hail to the golfballs and damaging winds also occurred with these storms.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, April 23, 1975
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, December 18, 1957
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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.