Missouri

Storm History: Webster County, Missouri

566 episodes, 999 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Webster 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
999
Deaths
6
Injuries
63
Damage
$146 million
Episodes
566

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
Flash Flood27920$13 million
Tornado272336$110 million
Hail21200$394,000
Thunderstorm Wind7400$766,000
Winter Storm3803$410,000
Flood3500$2.0 million
Drought3300$3.1 million
Ice Storm1601$5.5 million
Winter Weather12122
Heat900
Wildfire501$310,000
Heavy Snow400$95,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300$25,000
Frost/Freeze300$11 million
High Wind200$2,000
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 Webster County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Webster CountyEvery warning in Webster 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.