Iowa

Storm History: Grundy County, Iowa

400 episodes, 558 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grundy 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
558
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$134 million
Episodes
400

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
Tornado18112$10 million
Hail8600$17 million
Flash Flood5601$2.8 million
High Wind3300$1.0 million
Flood2800$22 million
Winter Storm2810$511,000
Blizzard2700$415,000
Drought2600$75 million
Heavy Snow2200$101,000
Thunderstorm Wind1500$647,000
Ice Storm1500$333,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Frost/Freeze900$4.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill800$294,000
Funnel Cloud600
Heavy Rain300
Excessive Heat200$135,000
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 Grundy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Grundy CountyEvery warning in Grundy 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.