Missouri

Storm History: Phelps County, Missouri

439 episodes, 678 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Phelps 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
678
Deaths
3
Injuries
19
Damage
$33 million
Episodes
439

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
Flash Flood17101$5.5 million
Tornado166211$15 million
Hail16200$189,000
Thunderstorm Wind5200$283,000
Winter Storm3004$375,000
Drought2300$1.1 million
Flood2200$149,000
Ice Storm1400$5.1 million
Heat900
Winter Weather903
Wildfire400$16,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heavy Snow300$35,000
High Wind200
Lightning200$200,000
Frost/Freeze200$5.4 million
Blizzard110
Heavy Rain100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Phelps County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Phelps CountyEvery warning in Phelps 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.