Missouri

Storm History: Randolph County, Missouri

226 episodes, 308 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Randolph 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
308
Deaths
8
Injuries
29
Damage
$7.3 million
Episodes
226

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
Hail8900$219,000
Tornado76429$5.7 million
Flash Flood3600$20,000
Thunderstorm Wind2100$846,000
Drought1500
Winter Storm1500
Heat1320
Ice Storm800$500,000
Heavy Snow700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Flood600$10,000
Winter Weather520$10,000
Blizzard300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
High Wind200$8,000
Frost/Freeze100

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 Randolph County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Randolph CountyEvery warning in Randolph 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.