Storm History: Douglas County, Colorado
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Douglas 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
- 1,563
- Deaths
- 15
- Injuries
- 140
- Damage
- $119 million
- Episodes
- 853
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Storm | 307 | 1 | 3 | $35,000 |
| Tornado | 268 | 0 | 8 | $1.3 million |
| Hail | 250 | 1 | 12 | $5.1 million |
| High Wind | 223 | 0 | 22 | $17 million |
| Heavy Snow | 155 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 103 | 2 | 69 | |
| Flash Flood | 82 | 0 | 3 | $14 million |
| Blizzard | 68 | 2 | 2 | $50 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 31 | 1 | 2 | $16,000 |
| Drought | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 12 | 0 | 3 | $286,000 |
| Wildfire | 9 | 3 | 0 | $22 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 5 | 15 | |
| Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Dust Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | $10 million |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Blizzard, March 17, 2003
- High Wind, April 9, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2006
- Wildfire, March 26, 2012
- Wildfire, April 1, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, November 10, 2014
- Blizzard, April 11, 2001
- High Wind, February 2, 1999
- Hail, June 11, 1999
- Hail, August 22, 2000
- Tornado, July 21, 1973
- Tornado, July 19, 1985
- Tornado, July 11, 1990
- Lightning, May 19, 2009
- Tornado, June 6, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2006
- High Wind, December 28, 1997
- Tornado, July 12, 2000
- Tornado, August 29, 2002
- Tornado, August 15, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 7, 2015
- Hail, June 8, 2026
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2002
- Hail, July 31, 1986
- Hail, June 26, 2020
- Hail, August 6, 2018
- Hail, May 24, 2003
- Hail, August 18, 2003
- Hail, June 10, 1969
- Flood, July 8, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2022
- Hail, June 3, 2015
- Hail, June 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2014
- Hail, June 27, 2011
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 8, 2026
- Hail, June 3, 2026
- Hail, June 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, May 5, 2026
- Strong Wind, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 12, 2026
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2026
- Wildfire, February 24, 2026
- High Wind, December 19, 2025
- High Wind, December 17, 2025
- High Wind, December 9, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 3, 2025
- Hail, October 27, 2025
- High Wind, October 20, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2025
- Tornado, July 14, 2025
- Wildfire, July 12, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2025
- Hail, June 24, 2025
- Heavy Rain, May 25, 2025
- Strong Wind, May 15, 2025
- Winter Weather, May 6, 2025
- Hail, April 24, 2025
- Winter Weather, April 17, 2025
- Strong Wind, March 24, 2025
- Blizzard, March 18, 2025
- High Wind, March 3, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2025
- High Wind, February 2, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 30, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 9, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2025
- High Wind, December 30, 2024
- High Wind, December 18, 2024
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2024
- Strong Wind, November 19, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 5, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 5, 2024
- Winter Storm, November 3, 2024
- Hail, August 10, 2024
- Wildfire, August 1, 2024
- Wildfire, July 30, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2024
- Hail, June 14, 2024
- Hail, June 13, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2024
- High Wind, May 6, 2024
- Hail, April 26, 2024
- Heavy Snow, April 26, 2024
- High Wind, April 6, 2024
- Winter Weather, March 23, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 13, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2024
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2024
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 9, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2024
- Blizzard, December 25, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2023
- High Wind, December 10, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 8, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, November 8, 2023
- Winter Storm, October 27, 2023
- Tornado, August 8, 2023
- Hail, August 6, 2023
- Tornado, July 31, 2023
- Hail, July 15, 2023
- Flood, July 8, 2023
- Tornado, June 22, 2023
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2023
- Tornado, June 6, 2023
- Hail, May 25, 2023
- Tornado, May 24, 2023
- Winter Storm, May 10, 2023
- Tornado, May 10, 2023
- Winter Weather, April 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 25, 2023
- High Wind, April 19, 2023
- Winter Weather, April 14, 2023
- Winter Storm, April 3, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2023
- High Wind, February 19, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2022
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- High Wind, December 2, 2022
- High Wind, December 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 17, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2022
- High Wind, November 4, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 3, 2022
- High Wind, October 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2022
- Tornado, July 6, 2022
- Winter Weather, May 31, 2022
- Winter Storm, May 19, 2022
- High Wind, April 29, 2022
- Winter Weather, April 24, 2022
- High Wind, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 4, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 29, 2022
- High Wind, March 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 16, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 8, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2022
- High Wind, January 4, 2022
- Wildfire, December 30, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2021
- High Wind, November 14, 2021
- Drought, November 1, 2021
- Hail, September 3, 2021
- Tornado, August 19, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2021
- Hail, June 5, 2021
- Hail, May 29, 2021
- Tornado, May 22, 2021
- Hail, May 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, April 19, 2021
- Winter Storm, April 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 21, 2021
- Blizzard, March 12, 2021
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 10, 2021
- Dust Storm, January 13, 2021
- High Wind, December 22, 2020
- High Wind, December 20, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 23, 2020
- High Wind, November 13, 2020
- High Wind, November 8, 2020
- Heavy Snow, October 23, 2020
- High Wind, October 11, 2020
- Winter Weather, September 7, 2020
- Hail, July 3, 2020
- Hail, June 26, 2020
- Hail, June 8, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 15, 2020
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2020
- Blizzard, March 19, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2020
- High Wind, January 17, 2020
- High Wind, January 6, 2020
- High Wind, January 6, 2020
- High Wind, November 29, 2019
- Blizzard, November 25, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 29, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 27, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 23, 2019
- Winter Storm, October 19, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 9, 2019
- Tornado, September 6, 2019
- Hail, July 22, 2019
- Hail, July 21, 2019
- Hail, July 15, 2019
- Tornado, July 4, 2019
- Hail, June 30, 2019
- Tornado, June 8, 2019
- Winter Storm, April 10, 2019
- Blizzard, March 13, 2019
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2019
- High Wind, February 13, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2019
- Blizzard, January 21, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 22, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 11, 2018
- High Wind, November 2, 2018
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2018
- Hail, August 7, 2018
- Hail, August 6, 2018
- Hail, July 25, 2018
- Tornado, July 23, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2018
- Tornado, July 5, 2018
- Tornado, June 19, 2018
- Hail, May 30, 2018
- Tornado, May 28, 2018
- Hail, May 14, 2018
- High Wind, April 17, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Winter Weather, March 26, 2018
- High Wind, March 23, 2018
- Winter Weather, March 18, 2018
- High Wind, March 5, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2018
- High Wind, January 30, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2018
- High Wind, December 29, 2017
- High Wind, November 4, 2017
- High Wind, November 1, 2017
- High Wind, October 31, 2017
- Winter Storm, October 8, 2017
- Hail, August 15, 2017
- Hail, August 5, 2017
- Tornado, May 26, 2017
- Heavy Snow, May 17, 2017
- Hail, May 7, 2017
- Lightning, May 6, 2017
- Winter Storm, April 28, 2017
- Winter Weather, April 3, 2017
- Blizzard, March 24, 2017
- High Wind, March 7, 2017
- High Wind, March 6, 2017
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2017
- High Wind, December 25, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2016
- Winter Weather, November 17, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2016
- Hail, July 15, 2016
- Hail, July 7, 2016
- Hail, July 1, 2016
- Hail, June 25, 2016
- Hail, June 20, 2016
- Hail, June 19, 2016
- Tornado, June 13, 2016
- Hail, June 7, 2016
- Hail, June 6, 2016
- Hail, May 26, 2016
- Tornado, April 25, 2016
- Heavy Snow, April 15, 2016
- Blizzard, March 22, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2016
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Douglas CountyEvery warning in Douglas 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.