Missouri

Storm History: Knox County, Missouri

243 episodes, 282 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Knox 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
282
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$996,000
Episodes
243

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
Hail6400$11,000
Tornado3502$775,000
Thunderstorm Wind3300$6,000
Flash Flood3300$202,000
Winter Storm2900
Excessive Heat2100
Heat1900
Heavy Snow800
Ice Storm800
High Wind600
Cold/Wind Chill600
Drought600
Flood400
Winter Weather300
Blizzard300
Strong Wind200$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Knox County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Knox CountyEvery warning in Knox 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.