Missouri

Storm History: Ralls County, Missouri

300 episodes, 348 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ralls 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
348
Deaths
0
Injuries
14
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
300

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
Hail94013$1.4 million
Tornado5100$67,000
Thunderstorm Wind3900$26,000
Winter Storm3300
Flash Flood2800
Excessive Heat2200
Heat2000
Flood1400$10 million
Heavy Snow1100
Drought800
Ice Storm700
High Wind500
Lightning301
Winter Weather300
Cold/Wind Chill300
Blizzard300
Strong Wind200$3,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Frost/Freeze100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Ralls County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ralls CountyEvery warning in Ralls 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.