Missouri

Storm History: Laclede County, Missouri

505 episodes, 800 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Laclede 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
800
Deaths
7
Injuries
52
Damage
$189 million
Episodes
505

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
Tornado219223$122 million
Hail18900$1.1 million
Flash Flood18122$4.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind8701$533,000
Winter Storm32012$25,000
Drought2400$4.0 million
Flood1800$220,000
Ice Storm1200$50 million
Heat900
Winter Weather6214$100,000
Wildfire500$560,000
Heavy Snow400$50,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
High Wind300$1,000
Frost/Freeze300$5.7 million
Cold/Wind Chill210
Blizzard100
Heavy Rain100

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 Laclede County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Laclede CountyEvery warning in Laclede 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.