Missouri

Storm History: Holt County, Missouri

230 episodes, 333 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Holt 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
333
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$2.5 million
Episodes
230

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
Hail9700$600,000
Tornado8900$602,000
Flash Flood3600$223,000
Thunderstorm Wind3000$8,000
Drought1400
Winter Storm1400
Heat1300
Heavy Snow800$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Ice Storm700$750,000
Blizzard500
Flood400$200,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather200
Excessive Heat200
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100

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 Holt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Holt CountyEvery warning in Holt 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.