Missouri

Storm History: Platte County, Missouri

480 episodes, 847 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Platte 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
847
Deaths
5
Injuries
22
Damage
$49 million
Episodes
480

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
Hail28700$1.8 million
Tornado171018$36 million
Flash Flood12800$5.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind8400$32,000
Flood5800$200,000
Winter Storm2600
Drought2100
Heat2010
Ice Storm1213$5.0 million
Heavy Snow1000$250,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800
Blizzard600
Winter Weather520$200,000
High Wind300
Excessive Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning100$100,000
Frost/Freeze100
Freezing Fog111$20,000

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 Platte County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Platte CountyEvery warning in Platte 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.