Storm History: Newton County, Missouri
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newton 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
- 1,055
- Deaths
- 22
- Injuries
- 256
- Damage
- $166 million
- Episodes
- 673
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 302 | 18 | 241 | $78 million |
| Flash Flood | 296 | 0 | 3 | $8.4 million |
| Hail | 235 | 0 | 0 | $428,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 83 | 0 | 1 | $508,000 |
| Drought | 37 | 0 | 0 | $31 million |
| Winter Storm | 34 | 0 | 5 | $180,000 |
| Flood | 21 | 1 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Ice Storm | 12 | 0 | 0 | $40 million |
| Heat | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $82,000 |
| Winter Weather | 5 | 1 | 5 | $50,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 3 | 0 | 0 | $6.5 million |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 2 | 1 | $25,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Ice Storm, January 12, 2007
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 24, 1975
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Tornado, April 15, 2001
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Tornado, June 8, 1974
- Tornado, April 15, 2001
- Flash Flood, March 17, 2008
- Flash Flood, December 26, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 28, 2017
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2019
- Tornado, May 29, 1985
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 21, 1996
- Flash Flood, April 21, 2022
- Hail, May 25, 1989
- Hail, June 2, 2010
- Hail, May 3, 2020
- Hail, April 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2008
- Hail, April 11, 1992
- Hail, May 8, 1988
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2018
- Hail, August 16, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2014
- Hail, April 13, 2012
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 20, 1957
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 24, 1975
- Tornado, February 24, 1956
- Tornado, March 24, 1954
- Tornado, April 13, 1974
- Tornado, March 26, 1976
- Tornado, April 29, 1983
- Tornado, November 15, 1988
- Tornado, January 7, 2008
- Tornado, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, May 20, 2019
- Tornado, May 31, 1958
- Tornado, March 12, 1961
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 13, 2026
- Tornado, June 7, 2026
- Tornado, April 27, 2026
- Tornado, April 26, 2026
- Tornado, April 23, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Tornado, March 6, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Winter Weather, December 1, 2025
- Hail, September 14, 2025
- Tornado, June 6, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2025
- Tornado, May 19, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2025
- Tornado, April 29, 2025
- Tornado, April 20, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 20, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 18, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2025
- Ice Storm, January 4, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Hail, October 30, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 17, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Tornado, March 14, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2024
- Ice Storm, January 21, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2024
- Hail, September 8, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 5, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Hail, July 30, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2023
- Hail, May 13, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Flash Flood, March 23, 2023
- Tornado, February 27, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Hail, May 18, 2022
- Hail, May 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2022
- Flash Flood, April 21, 2022
- Flash Flood, April 10, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 10, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Tornado, October 11, 2021
- Hail, September 20, 2021
- Hail, July 31, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2021
- Tornado, May 26, 2021
- Frost/Freeze, April 20, 2021
- Hail, April 9, 2021
- Tornado, March 17, 2021
- Flash Flood, March 11, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2020
- Hail, November 24, 2020
- Hail, November 14, 2020
- Drought, October 1, 2020
- Drought, September 1, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2020
- Hail, May 3, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 19, 2020
- Flood, March 11, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2020
- Tornado, January 10, 2020
- Tornado, October 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, October 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2019
- Tornado, May 20, 2019
- Hail, May 18, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 6, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 1, 2019
- Tornado, April 30, 2019
- Tornado, April 17, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 6, 2019
- Tornado, December 1, 2018
- Hail, November 30, 2018
- Tornado, August 19, 2018
- Hail, August 16, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2018
- Tornado, July 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2018
- Tornado, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2018
- Hail, May 6, 2018
- Frost/Freeze, April 6, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2017
- Hail, July 7, 2017
- Tornado, May 26, 2017
- Tornado, May 18, 2017
- Tornado, May 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 28, 2017
- Tornado, April 25, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 16, 2017
- Tornado, April 4, 2017
- Hail, March 21, 2017
- Tornado, March 9, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Tornado, March 1, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 16, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 25, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Hail, March 30, 2016
- Tornado, March 23, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 26, 2015
- Flood, November 27, 2015
- Flash Flood, November 17, 2015
- High Wind, November 11, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 23, 2015
- Hail, August 17, 2015
- Tornado, July 5, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 29, 2015
- Tornado, May 15, 2015
- Flood, April 17, 2015
- Tornado, April 1, 2015
- Hail, March 24, 2015
- Tornado, March 24, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2015
- Tornado, October 9, 2014
- Flash Flood, September 17, 2014
- Tornado, September 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2014
- Hail, May 12, 2014
- Tornado, April 24, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 5, 2013
- Tornado, May 30, 2013
- Tornado, May 19, 2013
- Flood, May 9, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 15, 2013
- Flash Flood, April 10, 2013
- Hail, March 30, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 16, 2012
- Hail, August 8, 2012
- Hail, August 4, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Heat, August 1, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2012
- Hail, July 7, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Heat, July 1, 2012
- Heat, June 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2012
- Flash Flood, April 15, 2012
- Flash Flood, April 14, 2012
- Hail, April 13, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Lightning, August 10, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Hail, July 22, 2011
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2011
- Flood, May 20, 2011
- Tornado, May 11, 2011
- Hail, April 22, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2011
- Tornado, April 10, 2011
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Hail, March 19, 2011
- Hail, March 13, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Tornado, November 24, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 25, 2010
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2010
- Tornado, July 12, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2010
- Hail, June 2, 2010
- Flood, May 20, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2010
- Tornado, May 13, 2010
- Hail, March 27, 2010
- Flash Flood, March 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 20, 2010
- Hail, March 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 29, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 8, 2009
- Hail, October 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2009
- Tornado, August 19, 2009
- Hail, August 17, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Newton CountyEvery warning in Newton 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.