Missouri

Storm History: Jackson County, Missouri

789 episodes, 1,806 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
1,806
Deaths
116
Injuries
216
Damage
$81 million
Episodes
789

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
Hail57900$7.3 million
Tornado46437195$21 million
Flash Flood340100$24 million
Thunderstorm Wind198013$10 million
Flood6700
Heat29480
Drought2800
Winter Storm2520
Ice Storm1500$15 million
Heavy Snow1400$1.0 million
Winter Weather1324$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill910
Lightning612$275,000
High Wind500$150,000
Cold/Wind Chill310
Excessive Heat3130
Blizzard300
Strong Wind210$3,000
Wildfire202
Frost/Freeze100

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 Jackson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jackson CountyEvery warning in Jackson 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.