Iowa

Storm History: Emmet County, Iowa

460 episodes, 624 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Emmet 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
624
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Damage
$150 million
Episodes
460

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
Hail13700$1.4 million
Tornado9700$3.8 million
Flood6800$37 million
Flash Flood6300$2.1 million
High Wind4400$1.2 million
Blizzard4100$505,000
Thunderstorm Wind3300$414,000
Winter Storm3300$601,000
Drought2700$96 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1810
Heavy Snow1600$250,000
Ice Storm1400$396,000
Cold/Wind Chill900$294,000
Frost/Freeze900$6.7 million
Heavy Rain500
Lightning300$60,000
Excessive Heat300$135,000
Funnel Cloud200
Heat100
Winter Weather100

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 Emmet County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Emmet CountyEvery warning in Emmet 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.