Colorado

Storm History: Conejos County, Colorado

430 episodes, 628 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Conejos 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
628
Deaths
12
Injuries
3
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
430

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
Winter Storm25010$70,000
Heavy Snow19620
High Wind9500$1.0 million
Winter Weather1700
Blizzard1552$350,000
Hail800
Dust Storm800
Cold/Wind Chill700
Wildfire700$10,000
Tornado600$25,000
Dense Fog500
Flood300$14 million
Drought300
Avalanche341
Ice Storm200
Debris Flow200
Flash Flood100

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 Conejos County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Conejos CountyEvery warning in Conejos 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.