Colorado

Storm History: Prowers County, Colorado

467 episodes, 806 events since 1957

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.

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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
Hail28900$120,000
Tornado237217$12 million
Flash Flood8400$95,000
Thunderstorm Wind7100$97,000
High Wind6000
Heavy Snow1700
Dust Storm1600
Winter Storm1300
Blizzard700
Flood300
Wildfire300$15,000
Funnel Cloud200
Lightning113
Ice Storm100
Winter Weather100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Prowers County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

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.