Missouri

Storm History: Pemiscot County, Missouri

367 episodes, 497 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pemiscot 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
497
Deaths
28
Injuries
261
Damage
$93 million
Episodes
367

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
Hail10000$1.3 million
Tornado7125253$65 million
Thunderstorm Wind7003$807,000
Excessive Heat6100
Heat5200
Winter Storm2910$3,000
Drought2900
Flash Flood2800$184,000
Winter Weather2613
Heavy Snow700$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Cold/Wind Chill400
Strong Wind300$20,000
Flood300$250,000
Ice Storm200$25 million
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind200$10,000
Tropical Storm102$150,000
Lightning110

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 Pemiscot County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pemiscot CountyEvery warning in Pemiscot 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.