Iowa

Storm History: Boone County, Iowa

468 episodes, 806 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boone County, Iowa: 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
0
Injuries
14
Damage
$177 million
Episodes
468

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
Tornado282013$34 million
Hail15300$1.3 million
Flash Flood10800$2.3 million
Flood4100$22 million
High Wind3701$1.1 million
Heavy Snow2700$3.9 million
Drought2700$106 million
Blizzard2600$585,000
Winter Storm2500$530,000
Thunderstorm Wind2100$82,000
Ice Storm1200$768,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Frost/Freeze900$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill700$294,000
Funnel Cloud600
Heavy Rain500
Lightning300$35,000
Excessive Heat300$135,000
Winter Weather200
Heat100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Boone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boone CountyEvery warning in Boone County since 1986Every county in Iowa

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.