Missouri

Storm History: Ripley County, Missouri

707 episodes, 793 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ripley 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
793
Deaths
3
Injuries
10
Damage
$41 million
Episodes
707

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
Hail10101$705,000
Tornado8513$8.6 million
Dense Fog7800
Flash Flood6801$1.4 million
Heat6004
Strong Wind5700$57,000
Thunderstorm Wind5000$583,000
Frost/Freeze4700$30,000
Drought4500
Winter Weather4001
Excessive Heat3820
Winter Storm3200$15 million
Flood2600$5.9 million
Heavy Snow2200$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill1300
High Wind900$8.0 million
Ice Storm700$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Wildfire500$19,000
Heavy Rain300
Funnel Cloud100
Freezing Fog100

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 Ripley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ripley CountyEvery warning in Ripley 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.