Colorado

Storm History: Yuma County, Colorado

833 episodes, 1,840 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Yuma 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
1,840
Deaths
4
Injuries
22
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
833

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
Hail87500$30 million
Tornado402018$29 million
Thunderstorm Wind15800$1.1 million
Flash Flood10600$429,000
High Wind6700$107,000
Drought4900
Blizzard2800
Flood2800$152,000
Heavy Snow2500
Dust Storm2500$20,000
Winter Storm2000
Wildfire1814$558,000
Winter Weather1600$45,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Cold/Wind Chill500
Funnel Cloud300
Strong Wind100$250
Dense Fog130$200,000

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 Yuma County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Yuma CountyEvery warning in Yuma 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.