Iowa

Storm History: Greene County, Iowa

401 episodes, 557 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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
557
Deaths
4
Injuries
2
Damage
$144 million
Episodes
401

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
Tornado13942$5.5 million
Hail9600$1.1 million
Flash Flood6000$847,000
Flood4700$23 million
High Wind3100$1.0 million
Drought3000$106 million
Winter Storm2700$530,000
Blizzard2400$495,000
Heavy Snow2400$121,000
Thunderstorm Wind2100$63,000
Ice Storm1100$1.3 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Heavy Rain1100
Frost/Freeze900$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill700$294,000
Funnel Cloud300
Excessive Heat300$135,000
Winter Weather200
Heat100

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greene CountyEvery warning in Greene 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.