Hurricanes and Tornadoes That Hit Riverside, MO

The nearest NOAA station with 1991–2020 climate normals is Kansas City Downtown Airport, MO, 4 miles south of Riverside at 742 feet. July is the warmest, with an average high of 90°F and low of 72°F; January is the coolest, at 40°F and 22°F. June is the wettest at 5.3 inches of precipitation on average and January the driest at 1.0 inches; the year adds up to 38.1 inches over 60 days with at least a tenth of an inch. Highs reach 90°F on about 47 days a year, almost all from May to September. Lows fall below freezing on about 93 nights a year. Snowfall averages 11.0 inches a year, most of it in December. That 38.1 inches is more than at 6 of the 134 Missouri stations used on this site (4%). Parkville, 5 miles northwest, has its own station (Kansas City International Airport, MO): 39.5 inches a year, 1.4 more than here, and a July average high of 88°F against 90°F.

Since 1996, the National Weather Service has logged 525 flood, rain, thunderstorm wind and lightning events that began within 10 miles of Riverside: 402 thunderstorm wind reports, 105 flash floods, 12 floods, 5 heavy rain events and 1 lightning strike. None is recorded as killing or injuring anyone; the NWS estimated $448,000 in property and crop damage. The strongest thunderstorm gust on record here was 92 mph, on June 23, 1998. August has had the most flash floods, 30 of 105. Of the 334 Missouri cities on this site with a flash flood on record, 323 have had fewer than Riverside.

Flood insurance policyholders in Riverside's ZIP code 64150 have filed 62 claims with the National Flood Insurance Program since 1979, and were paid $7.2 million for buildings and contents, in the dollars of each year. The most came from Midwest Flooding in 1993: 50 claims (81% of all) and $6.9 million. 87% 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, 91 have fewer than Riverside.