Iowa

Storm History: Clarke County, Iowa

370 episodes, 549 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clarke 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
549
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$149 million
Episodes
370

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
Tornado10700$3.7 million
Hail10600$862,000
Flash Flood10001$2.6 million
Flood3800$22 million
Drought3300$110 million
Winter Storm2600$245,000
Heavy Snow2310$3.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind2102$242,000
High Wind2000$810,000
Heavy Rain1600
Ice Storm1500$495,000
Blizzard1300$250,000
Frost/Freeze900$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill700$294,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Excessive Heat300$135,000
Funnel Cloud200
Heat100
Winter Weather100
Lightning100$25,000
Wildfire101$40,000

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 Clarke County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clarke CountyEvery warning in Clarke 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.