Missouri

Storm History: Stone County, Missouri

518 episodes, 797 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stone 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
797
Deaths
18
Injuries
27
Damage
$48 million
Episodes
518

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
Hail226170$549,000
Tornado197018$19 million
Flash Flood18613$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind6601$2.9 million
Winter Storm3602$35,000
Drought3300$5.8 million
Heat900
Flood900$350,000
Ice Storm800$400,000
Heavy Snow500$15,000
Winter Weather500
Wildfire403$71,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400$10,000
High Wind300$45,000
Frost/Freeze200$2.1 million
Lightning100$500,000
Funnel Cloud100
Blizzard100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Stone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stone CountyEvery warning in Stone 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.