Storm History: Putnam County, Missouri
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Putnam 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
- 265
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $1.1 million
- Episodes
- 208
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 79 | 0 | 2 | $71,000 |
| Tornado | 38 | 0 | 0 | $309,000 |
| Flash Flood | 29 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| Drought | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 16 | 0 | 0 | $200,000 |
| Heat | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 10 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Blizzard | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Heavy Snow, April 10, 1997
- Tornado, April 21, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 12, 2006
- Hail, June 14, 2001
- Tornado, November 17, 1958
- Tornado, May 10, 2003
- Tornado, May 24, 2004
- Hail, March 8, 2002
- Flash Flood, April 5, 2001
- Hail, September 13, 2005
- Ice Storm, December 9, 2007
- Hail, September 19, 2016
- Hail, June 1, 2010
- Tornado, January 24, 1967
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2008
- Hail, June 30, 2023
- Hail, March 31, 2023
- Hail, April 3, 2011
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Hail, May 24, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2014
- Hail, April 24, 2002
- Hail, September 11, 2000
- Hail, May 8, 1988
- Hail, September 30, 1977
- Hail, June 14, 1974
- Hail, June 4, 1969
- Hail, August 3, 1962
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Tornado, July 11, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2025
- Blizzard, January 4, 2025
- Hail, August 27, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2024
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Hail, May 24, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Heat, August 19, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Hail, June 30, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Hail, March 31, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Hail, May 17, 2022
- Hail, March 5, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2022
- Hail, December 15, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2020
- Hail, May 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 16, 2020
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2020
- Hail, August 20, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2019
- Hail, June 25, 2019
- Tornado, May 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2019
- Blizzard, November 25, 2018
- Drought, September 1, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Drought, July 1, 2018
- Hail, June 28, 2018
- Drought, June 1, 2018
- Tornado, June 28, 2017
- Hail, June 14, 2017
- Flood, April 1, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 13, 2017
- Hail, September 19, 2016
- Tornado, May 31, 2016
- Hail, March 23, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 27, 2015
- Tornado, November 11, 2015
- Hail, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2015
- Hail, June 7, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 31, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2014
- Hail, May 12, 2014
- Tornado, April 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 6, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Ice Storm, December 21, 2013
- Drought, October 1, 2013
- Drought, September 1, 2013
- Drought, August 27, 2013
- Winter Weather, May 2, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Hail, January 29, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Blizzard, December 20, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Hail, June 16, 2012
- Hail, May 25, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 23, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 13, 2012
- Winter Weather, January 27, 2012
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2011
- Tornado, June 26, 2011
- Tornado, June 14, 2011
- Hail, April 3, 2011
- Hail, March 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 10, 2011
- Tornado, July 19, 2010
- Hail, June 21, 2010
- Hail, June 1, 2010
- Hail, April 5, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2010
- Blizzard, December 7, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2009
- Hail, February 26, 2009
- Ice Storm, December 18, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2008
- Tornado, July 21, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2008
- Hail, June 26, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2008
- Tornado, June 12, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2008
- Tornado, April 9, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2008
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2008
- Heavy Snow, December 31, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 9, 2007
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2007
- Hail, August 12, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 6, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 4, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Ice Storm, November 29, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2006
- Heat, August 1, 2006
- Heat, July 29, 2006
- Heat, July 16, 2006
- Hail, May 27, 2006
- Hail, April 18, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 15, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 12, 2006
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2006
- Hail, September 13, 2005
- Heat, July 21, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Tornado, October 29, 2004
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2004
- Tornado, May 24, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2003
- Tornado, May 10, 2003
- Tornado, April 30, 2003
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2003
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2003
- Hail, May 6, 2002
- Hail, April 24, 2002
- Hail, March 8, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 30, 2002
- Heat, August 9, 2001
- Heat, August 1, 2001
- Hail, July 24, 2001
- Heat, July 17, 2001
- Heat, July 6, 2001
- Hail, July 3, 2001
- Hail, June 14, 2001
- Flash Flood, April 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 27, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2001
- Ice Storm, December 10, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 10, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 6, 2000
- Hail, October 3, 2000
- Hail, September 11, 2000
- Heat, September 1, 2000
- Heat, August 28, 2000
- Hail, June 25, 2000
- Hail, June 1, 2000
- Drought, April 1, 2000
- Heat, July 18, 1999
- Hail, June 29, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 1998
- Ice Storm, January 4, 1998
- Hail, August 15, 1997
- Hail, May 2, 1997
- Heavy Snow, April 10, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 10, 1997
- Hail, July 28, 1992
- Tornado, May 17, 1991
- Hail, May 8, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 9, 1985
- Hail, September 30, 1977
- Hail, June 14, 1974
- Tornado, June 16, 1973
- Tornado, April 21, 1973
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1971
- Tornado, April 29, 1970
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 1969
- Hail, June 4, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 17, 1968
- Tornado, January 24, 1967
- Hail, August 3, 1962
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 1962
- Tornado, June 29, 1960
- Tornado, November 17, 1958
- Tornado, April 3, 1957
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 1956
More
Tornadoes in Putnam CountyEvery warning in Putnam 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.