Missouri

Storm History: Lafayette County, Missouri

393 episodes, 563 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lafayette 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
563
Deaths
4
Injuries
7
Damage
$7.2 million
Episodes
393

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
Hail15500$395,000
Tornado14915$3.8 million
Flood7600$1.5 million
Flash Flood4800$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind2900$36,000
Drought2700
Winter Storm2100
Heat1400
Heavy Snow1200
Ice Storm1022$400,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill810
Winter Weather400
High Wind300$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Blizzard200
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 Lafayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lafayette CountyEvery warning in Lafayette 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.