Colorado

Storm History: Adams County, Colorado

773 episodes, 1,310 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adams County, Colorado: 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
1,310
Deaths
15
Injuries
145
Damage
$506 million
Episodes
773

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.

Open the live radar over Adams County

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
Tornado446049$152 million
Hail30106$155 million
Winter Storm13510$1.3 million
High Wind101012$151,000
Flash Flood6313$168 million
Thunderstorm Wind6103$71,000
Blizzard5822$19 million
Heavy Snow5400
Winter Weather40453
Lightning1021$70,000
Cold/Wind Chill9515
Drought900
Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Flood300
Dust Storm300
Wildfire300$750,000
Frost/Freeze200$10 million
Strong Wind100$10,000
Avalanche101
Dust Devil100$5,000

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 Adams County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Adams CountyEvery warning in Adams County since 1986Every county in Colorado

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.