Missouri

Storm History: Howard County, Missouri

295 episodes, 374 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Howard 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
374
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$3.1 million
Episodes
295

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
Hail8400$115,000
Flood7700
Tornado6501$1.1 million
Flash Flood5100$611,000
Drought2400
Winter Storm1400
Thunderstorm Wind1300$278,000
Heat1300
Heavy Snow800
Ice Storm600$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Winter Weather200
Heavy Rain100
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100
Wildfire100

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 Howard County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Howard CountyEvery warning in Howard 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.