Missouri

Storm History: Jasper County, Missouri

783 episodes, 1,283 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jasper 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
1,283
Deaths
179
Injuries
1,297
Damage
$2.9 billion
Episodes
783

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
Tornado4161671,260$2.9 billion
Hail27400$3.7 million
Flash Flood27420$4.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind146010$2.3 million
Drought3800$59 million
Winter Storm3406$235,000
Flood3110$60,000
High Wind1500$92,000
Ice Storm1100$5.3 million
Winter Weather10119$100,000
Heat940
Lightning512$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Snow400$60,000
Wildfire300$8,000
Frost/Freeze300$6.8 million
Excessive Heat320$324,000
Blizzard110
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Jasper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jasper CountyEvery warning in Jasper 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.