Storm History: Prowers County, Colorado
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Prowers 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
- 806
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 20
- Damage
- $12 million
- Episodes
- 467
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 289 | 0 | 0 | $120,000 |
| Tornado | 237 | 2 | 17 | $12 million |
| Flash Flood | 84 | 0 | 0 | $95,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 71 | 0 | 0 | $97,000 |
| High Wind | 60 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dust Storm | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 3 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 29, 2001
- Tornado, March 28, 2007
- Tornado, April 27, 2012
- Tornado, May 16, 1995
- Tornado, May 21, 1989
- Tornado, May 23, 2010
- Hail, August 9, 2010
- Tornado, July 15, 2016
- Tornado, June 2, 1961
- Tornado, July 23, 1996
- Flash Flood, August 28, 2002
- Tornado, May 15, 2003
- Tornado, June 11, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 4, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2011
- Tornado, June 2, 2012
- Tornado, June 24, 1968
- Tornado, June 8, 1975
- Tornado, June 6, 1989
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 24, 2021
- Hail, May 16, 1999
- Tornado, June 7, 2022
- Hail, August 16, 1997
- Tornado, July 4, 2023
- Hail, July 29, 2018
- Hail, August 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2004
- Hail, July 31, 1986
- Hail, June 5, 2022
- Tornado, May 21, 2020
- Hail, June 29, 2017
- Hail, August 13, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2015
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Heavy Snow, May 5, 2026
- High Wind, January 15, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2025
- Hail, August 9, 2025
- Hail, August 2, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 30, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 3, 2025
- High Wind, December 29, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 6, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 5, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 17, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 15, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 25, 2024
- Hail, August 19, 2024
- Hail, July 19, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2024
- Hail, June 14, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2024
- Hail, May 28, 2024
- Hail, May 18, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2024
- High Wind, April 15, 2024
- Tornado, March 24, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 26, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2024
- Blizzard, January 7, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 1, 2023
- Tornado, July 4, 2023
- Tornado, June 22, 2023
- Tornado, June 15, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 6, 2023
- Tornado, May 29, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 26, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Dust Storm, December 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2022
- Tornado, July 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2022
- Tornado, June 7, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 6, 2022
- Hail, June 5, 2022
- Hail, May 18, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 2022
- Hail, May 1, 2022
- High Wind, April 29, 2022
- High Wind, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- Dust Storm, December 12, 2021
- High Wind, October 12, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2021
- Hail, July 18, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2021
- Tornado, July 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2021
- Hail, July 3, 2021
- Hail, June 24, 2021
- Hail, June 19, 2021
- Tornado, June 6, 2021
- Tornado, May 30, 2021
- Hail, May 21, 2021
- Hail, May 14, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 8, 2021
- Tornado, May 2, 2021
- High Wind, April 9, 2021
- High Wind, April 6, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 13, 2021
- High Wind, March 10, 2021
- High Wind, January 14, 2021
- High Wind, December 22, 2020
- High Wind, November 13, 2020
- Hail, August 14, 2020
- Hail, August 4, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2020
- Hail, July 12, 2020
- Hail, July 2, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2020
- Hail, June 25, 2020
- Hail, June 23, 2020
- High Wind, June 8, 2020
- High Wind, June 7, 2020
- Tornado, May 21, 2020
- High Wind, March 26, 2020
- Hail, September 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 8, 2019
- Hail, August 23, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2019
- Tornado, May 26, 2019
- Hail, May 4, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 2019
- High Wind, March 13, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2018
- High Wind, November 24, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2018
- Hail, July 29, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2018
- Hail, June 22, 2018
- Hail, May 18, 2018
- High Wind, April 17, 2018
- High Wind, April 13, 2018
- Hail, August 13, 2017
- Hail, August 10, 2017
- Hail, August 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2017
- Hail, June 29, 2017
- Tornado, June 25, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2017
- Winter Storm, April 28, 2017
- Tornado, April 12, 2017
- High Wind, March 23, 2017
- High Wind, March 5, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2017
- High Wind, December 25, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 4, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2016
- Tornado, July 15, 2016
- Hail, June 27, 2016
- Tornado, June 13, 2016
- High Wind, March 23, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2015
- High Wind, November 16, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 15, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 17, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2015
- Hail, July 18, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 2, 2015
- Hail, April 23, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- High Wind, December 23, 2014
- Flood, July 30, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2014
- Tornado, July 14, 2014
- Flood, July 13, 2014
- Tornado, July 12, 2014
- Hail, June 25, 2014
- Tornado, June 6, 2014
- Hail, May 22, 2014
- Hail, May 21, 2014
- High Wind, April 29, 2014
- High Wind, April 27, 2014
- High Wind, March 18, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 3, 2014
- Heavy Snow, October 10, 2013
- Hail, August 12, 2013
- Tornado, July 25, 2013
- Hail, June 18, 2013
- Hail, May 25, 2013
- Tornado, May 8, 2013
- High Wind, January 11, 2013
- High Wind, November 10, 2012
- Hail, August 7, 2012
- Tornado, June 14, 2012
- Hail, June 4, 2012
- Tornado, June 2, 2012
- High Wind, May 26, 2012
- Hail, May 23, 2012
- Hail, May 17, 2012
- Tornado, April 27, 2012
- Tornado, April 26, 2012
- High Wind, March 18, 2012
- High Wind, February 28, 2012
- High Wind, February 20, 2012
- High Wind, January 21, 2012
- Blizzard, December 19, 2011
- High Wind, November 5, 2011
- High Wind, October 6, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2011
- Hail, July 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2011
- Hail, July 8, 2011
- Hail, July 6, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2011
- Hail, June 17, 2011
- Tornado, June 11, 2011
- Tornado, May 24, 2011
- High Wind, April 15, 2011
- High Wind, April 9, 2011
- High Wind, April 3, 2011
- Hail, August 9, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 31, 2010
- Hail, July 22, 2010
- Hail, July 20, 2010
- Hail, July 18, 2010
- Tornado, July 15, 2010
- Hail, July 4, 2010
- Hail, June 20, 2010
- High Wind, May 24, 2010
- Tornado, May 23, 2010
- Tornado, April 22, 2010
- High Wind, April 1, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2010
- Hail, July 31, 2009
- Tornado, July 29, 2009
- Tornado, July 23, 2009
- Hail, July 17, 2009
- Hail, July 3, 2009
- Funnel Cloud, June 20, 2009
- Hail, June 14, 2009
- Tornado, June 13, 2009
- Hail, June 13, 2009
- Tornado, June 11, 2009
- Hail, June 1, 2009
- Tornado, April 17, 2009
- High Wind, April 4, 2009
- Blizzard, March 26, 2009
- Hail, August 11, 2008
- Hail, June 23, 2008
- Hail, June 20, 2008
- Hail, June 18, 2008
- Hail, June 8, 2008
- Tornado, June 5, 2008
- High Wind, May 22, 2008
- High Wind, May 2, 2008
- Hail, August 26, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2007
- Hail, July 11, 2007
- Tornado, July 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2007
- Hail, June 22, 2007
- Hail, June 9, 2007
- High Wind, June 6, 2007
- Tornado, May 14, 2007
- Hail, April 24, 2007
- High Wind, April 24, 2007
- Tornado, April 21, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2007
- Tornado, March 28, 2007
- Blizzard, February 24, 2007
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2007
- Blizzard, December 28, 2006
- Blizzard, December 18, 2006
Earlier years, state by state:
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Tornadoes in Prowers CountyEvery warning in Prowers 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.