NHC HURDAT2 · SPC Tornado Database
Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Peculiar, MO
Every tropical system within 75 miles since 1851 and every tornado within 25 miles since 1950.
Data: NOAA NHC HURDAT2 and NOAA SPC tornado and hail reports, through 2025 · Updated
No tropical storm or hurricane has passed within 75 miles of Peculiar, Missouri since records began in 1851. Since 1950, 126 tornadoes have touched down within 25 miles, 8 of them rated EF3 or stronger.
- Hurricanes
- 0
- Tropical storms
- 0
- Tornadoes
- 126
- EF3 or stronger
- 8
within 75 mi, since 1851
below hurricane strength
within 25 mi, since 1950
47 deaths in all
What the records show for Peculiar
The strongest of the 126 tornadoes within 25 miles was an F5 on May 20, 1957; its path came within 14 miles, and it killed 44 people. Of the 126, 9 had paths within 5 miles of the city centre, and 56 have come since 2000. May has had the most tornadoes, 47. The most recent tornado was on July 11, 2025. Peculiar has more tornadoes within 25 miles than 74% of the 334 Missouri cities on this site. Hail has been reported within 10 miles 223 times since 1960, with stones up to 4 inches (softball size). Peculiar has more hail reports within 10 miles than 85% of the 334 Missouri cities.
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Tornadoes within 25 miles of Peculiar
By decade
- 2020s11
- 2010s30(1 EF3+)
- 2000s15
- 1990s4
- 1980s16
- 1970s12(2 EF3+)
- 1960s27(4 EF3+)
- 1950s11(1 EF3+)
| Date | Rating | Distance | Path | Killed / injured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 1957 | F5 | 14 mi | 69.4 mi | 44 / 207 |
| May 4, 1977 | F3 | 17 mi | 29.8 mi | 2 / 15 |
| Apr 12, 1964 | F3 | 3 mi | 19.5 mi | 1 / 10 |
| Mar 6, 2017 | EF3 | 21 mi | 17.74 mi | 0 / 12 |
| May 4, 1977 | F3 | 24 mi | 31.6 mi | 0 / 1 |
| May 15, 1968 | F3 | 8 mi | 2.7 mi | 0 / 0 |
| Apr 19, 1966 | F3 | 21 mi | 7.7 mi | 0 / 4 |
| Apr 15, 1960 | F3 | 4 mi | 8.4 mi | 0 / 2 |
| May 4, 2003 | F2 | 16 mi | 22 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 20, 1982 | F2 | 20 mi | 3 mi | 0 / 0 |
| May 11, 1978 | F2 | 18 mi | 11.5 mi | 0 / 1 |
| May 4, 1977 | F2 | 17 mi | 7.8 mi | 0 / 0 |
The strongest 12 of 126, by rating and then by deaths. Ratings before February 2007 are on the original Fujita scale.
Hail in Peculiar
The Storm Prediction Center has 223 hail reports within 10 miles of Peculiar since 1960, made on 116 separate days. Of these, 144 were 1 inch across or larger, and 15 reached 2 inches. The largest, 4 inches (softball size), fell on July 17, 2023. The most recent report is from June 7, 2024. May has the most reports, 50.
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather reports, data through 2025.
Weather by month in Peculiar
The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Pleasant Hill WFO, MO, 13 miles northeast of Peculiar at 1,000 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 88°F and low of 69°F; January is the coolest, at 39°F and 21°F. May is the wettest at 5.8 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.4 inches; the year adds up to 42.7 inches over 64 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 37 days a year, almost all from June to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 106 nights a year. Snowfall averages 16.8 inches a year, most of it in December. That 42.7 inches is more than at 50 of the 134 Missouri stations used on this site (37%). Cleveland, 7 miles west, has its own station (Olathe Johnson Co Exec Airport, KS): 37.8 inches a year, 4.9 less than here, and the same July average high, 88°F.
| Month | High °F | Low °F | Precip. in | Days ≥ 0.1" | Snow in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 39 | 21 | 1.4 | 3 | 4.3 |
| Feb | 44 | 25 | 1.8 | 4 | 4.4 |
| Mar | 55 | 34 | 3.0 | 6 | 1.8 |
| Apr | 65 | 44 | 4.2 | 7 | 0.3 |
| May | 75 | 55 | 5.8 | 8 | 0.1 |
| Jun | 84 | 65 | 5.3 | 7 | 0.0 |
| Jul | 88 | 69 | 4.7 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Aug | 87 | 67 | 4.4 | 6 | 0.0 |
| Sep | 80 | 58 | 4.4 | 5 | 0.0 |
| Oct | 68 | 46 | 3.4 | 6 | 0.4 |
| Nov | 54 | 35 | 2.4 | 3 | 1.0 |
| Dec | 42 | 26 | 1.9 | 4 | 4.5 |
| Year | 65 | 45 | 42.7 | 64 | 16.8 |
Averages for 1991–2020 at Pleasant Hill WFO, MO (1,000 ft), from NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals. Normals describe the station; the farther a place is from it, and the bigger the difference in height, the more its weather can differ.
Floods, thunderstorm wind and lightning near Peculiar
Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 144 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Peculiar: 115 thunderstorm wind reports, 25 flash floods and 4 floods. They killed 0 people and injured 1, and the NWS estimated $165,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 86 mph, on June 29, 1998. June has had the most flash floods, 9 of 25. Of the 334 Missouri cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 204 have had fewer than Peculiar.
June 18, 2011: thunderstorm wind 8 miles from the centre of Peculiar — 1 injured, $40,000 damage.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, events whose starting point is on record, 1996 to June 30, 2026. Damage is the NWS estimate in the dollars of the year, not insured losses, and NWS notes that some reports are unverified.
Flood insurance claims, disaster declarations and FEMA risk ratings
Flood insurance policyholders in Peculiar's ZIP code 64078 have filed 60 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1982, and were paid $1.1 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The year with the most claims was 2017, with 12. 7% 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, 87 have fewer than Peculiar.
Cass County, which includes Peculiar, has been named in 21 federal disaster or emergency declarations since 1973, 15 of them major disasters (by incident: 10 severe storms, 3 floods, 3 ice storms, 2 biological emergencies). The latest major disaster declaration was Covid-19 Pandemic, on March 26, 2020. FEMA's National Risk Index gives Cass County a Relatively Low rating for natural hazard risk overall; by hazard: Relatively High for strong wind; Relatively Moderate for tornadoes, hail, lightning and heat waves; Relatively Low for inland flooding; Very Low for hurricanes. It models the county's expected loss from all 18 hazards it covers at $44.3 million a year, the 15th highest of 115 Missouri counties; of the hazards above, the largest share, $17.5 million (39%), is from inland flooding.
Claims: FEMA, OpenFEMA Dataset FIMA NFIP Redacted Claims – v3, summed over ZIP codes; payments in the dollars of each year, not adjusted for inflation. Declarations: Disaster Declarations Summaries – v2, by county. Retrieved October 25, 2026. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's OpenFEMA API, but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
Risk ratings: FEMA, National Risk Index county table, December 2025 (v1.20), retrieved October 26, 2026; ratings compare counties nationwide, are meant for planning and are no substitute for a local risk assessment. This product uses the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Risk Index dataset API or downloadable datasets but is not endorsed by FEMA. The Federal Government or FEMA cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from the Agency's website(s).
What counts as a pass, the distances and the sources: how this storm history is built.