Iowa

Storm History: Delaware County, Iowa

465 episodes, 697 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Delaware 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
697
Deaths
1
Injuries
22
Damage
$115 million
Episodes
465

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
Tornado188020$34 million
Hail12502$5.0 million
Flash Flood8000$26 million
Thunderstorm Wind6200$2.1 million
Winter Storm6200
Winter Weather5110$7,000
Heavy Snow2100$10,000
Blizzard1600$5,000
Flood1600$30 million
Ice Storm1600$42,000
Dense Fog1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1200
High Wind900$100,000
Drought800$18 million
Frost/Freeze700$330,000
Cold/Wind Chill500
Heat300
Strong Wind100
Excessive Heat100
Freezing Fog100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Delaware County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Delaware CountyEvery warning in Delaware 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.