Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Parkville, MO

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Kansas City International Airport, MO, 6 miles north of Parkville at 1,005 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 68°F; January is the coolest, at 38°F and 20°F. May and June are the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.2 inches; the year adds up to 39.5 inches over 63 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 36 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 107 nights a year. Snowfall averages 18.2 inches a year, most of it in February. That 39.5 inches is more than at 14 of the 134 Missouri stations used on this site (10%). Riverside, 5 miles southeast, has its own station (Kansas City Downtown Airport, MO): 38.1 inches a year, 1.4 less than here, and a July average high of 90°F against 88°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 405 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Parkville: 328 thunderstorm wind reports, 59 flash floods, 15 floods and 3 heavy rain events. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $1.2 million in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 81 mph, on June 10, 1998. May has had the most flash floods, 16 of 59. Of the 334 Missouri cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 279 have had fewer than Parkville.

Flood insurance policyholders in Parkville's ZIP code 64152 have filed 61 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $547,000 for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2019, with 10. 23% of the claims carry the name of a storm or flood event; the rest have no event name. Of the 172 Missouri cities on this site with 10 or more claims, 88 have fewer than Parkville.