Missouri

Storm History: Scotland County, Missouri

319 episodes, 418 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Scotland 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
418
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
319

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
Hail9500$3.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind7901$307,000
Flash Flood5600$630,000
Winter Storm4600
Winter Weather4400$3,000
Tornado3200$729,000
Drought1300$13 million
Ice Storm1100$22,000
Heavy Snow800
Dense Fog801
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Frost/Freeze500$495,000
Blizzard400
Heat300
High Wind200
Flood200
Lightning200$160,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Excessive Heat100

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 Scotland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Scotland CountyEvery warning in Scotland 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.