Missouri

Storm History: Saline County, Missouri

393 episodes, 528 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saline 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
528
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$8.5 million
Episodes
393

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
Tornado12707$6.7 million
Hail12500$235,000
Flood10800$760,000
Flash Flood5700$300,000
Thunderstorm Wind2200$6,000
Drought2200
Winter Storm1600
Heat1310
Heavy Snow900
Ice Storm900$402,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Winter Weather501$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Blizzard200
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100

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 Saline County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saline CountyEvery warning in Saline 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.