Missouri

Storm History: Texas County, Missouri

523 episodes, 745 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Texas 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
745
Deaths
3
Injuries
28
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
523

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
Hail20101$1.0 million
Tornado194217$13 million
Flash Flood16903$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind5400$488,000
Winter Storm3400$160,000
Flood3310$228,000
Drought1500$1.7 million
Ice Storm1301$155,000
Heat900
Winter Weather701
Heavy Snow400$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Wildfire200
Frost/Freeze200$6.3 million
Lightning105
Blizzard100
High Wind100
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 Texas County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Texas CountyEvery warning in Texas 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.