Missouri

Storm History: Stoddard County, Missouri

824 episodes, 922 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stoddard 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
922
Deaths
5
Injuries
37
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
824

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
Hail13002$611,000
Tornado11916$11 million
Dense Fog9400
Thunderstorm Wind9018$2.1 million
Strong Wind7800$101,000
Heat6006$30,000
Flash Flood5010$6.6 million
Frost/Freeze4300$3.0 million
Drought4200$2.0 million
Winter Weather39112
Excessive Heat3700
Winter Storm3413$20 million
Flood2700$644,000
Heavy Snow2200
Funnel Cloud1500
Cold/Wind Chill1400
High Wind900$14 million
Ice Storm700$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Rain300
Lightning200$20,000
Freezing Fog100
Wildfire100$1,000

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 Stoddard County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stoddard CountyEvery warning in Stoddard 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.