Missouri

Storm History: Worth County, Missouri

176 episodes, 225 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Worth 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
225
Deaths
9
Injuries
11
Damage
$891,000
Episodes
176

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
Hail6900
Tornado48211$605,000
Winter Storm2000
Drought1500
Heat1270
Flash Flood1000$500
Heavy Snow900$250,000
Ice Storm900$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Thunderstorm Wind700$10,000
Winter Weather600
Blizzard500
Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Frost/Freeze100
High Wind100

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 Worth County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Worth CountyEvery warning in Worth 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.