Storm History: Mitchell County, Iowa
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mitchell 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
- 484
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $86 million
- Episodes
- 345
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 97 | 0 | 0 | $2.3 million |
| Tornado | 96 | 0 | 0 | $7.2 million |
| Winter Storm | 53 | 0 | 0 | $143,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 38 | 0 | 0 | $43 million |
| Flash Flood | 30 | 0 | 0 | $32 million |
| Flood | 30 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Blizzard | 25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 23 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 17 | 0 | 0 | $240,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 9 | 0 | 0 | $4,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 5 | 0 | 0 | $70,000 |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $200 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2008
- Tornado, August 27, 2021
- Hail, October 4, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 6, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 18, 1999
- Tornado, July 31, 1994
- Tornado, July 19, 1994
- Tornado, April 12, 2022
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Flood, July 19, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 20, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 1999
- Tornado, December 15, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 23, 2016
- Tornado, May 23, 1981
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
- Tornado, August 17, 1994
- Hail, May 30, 1994
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, August 19, 1994
- Hail, October 4, 2006
- Hail, April 9, 2017
- Hail, April 17, 2004
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Hail, April 24, 2009
- Hail, July 18, 2002
- Hail, May 9, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2016
- Flood, June 16, 2014
- Flood, April 9, 2013
- Hail, June 10, 2008
- Hail, June 18, 2001
- Hail, May 15, 1998
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, October 14, 1966
- Tornado, August 26, 1965
- Tornado, June 7, 1984
- Tornado, May 24, 1989
- Tornado, June 24, 1971
- Tornado, June 20, 1974
- Tornado, July 19, 1994
- Tornado, July 27, 1995
- Tornado, June 11, 2004
- Tornado, May 23, 1954
- Tornado, June 11, 1966
- Tornado, June 26, 1969
- Tornado, May 29, 1980
- Tornado, May 23, 1981
- Tornado, March 24, 1988
Every episode, newest first
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2026
- Blizzard, March 15, 2026
- High Wind, March 13, 2026
- Winter Storm, February 19, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2026
- Blizzard, December 28, 2025
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Hail, September 22, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2025
- Hail, May 19, 2025
- Blizzard, March 19, 2025
- Blizzard, March 5, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Excessive Heat, August 26, 2024
- Flood, June 22, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2024
- Drought, May 1, 2024
- Drought, April 1, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 13, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, November 25, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 21, 2023
- Drought, August 15, 2023
- Hail, July 13, 2023
- Flood, May 14, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2023
- Blizzard, December 21, 2022
- Hail, July 10, 2022
- Hail, May 9, 2022
- Tornado, April 12, 2022
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 25, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2022
- Tornado, December 15, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2021
- Tornado, August 27, 2021
- Drought, August 1, 2021
- Funnel Cloud, July 1, 2021
- Drought, July 1, 2021
- Drought, June 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 15, 2021
- Blizzard, February 4, 2021
- Flood, July 11, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2020
- Blizzard, January 17, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 20, 2019
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Blizzard, February 23, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2018
- Funnel Cloud, June 26, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2018
- Flood, June 7, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 18, 2018
- Winter Storm, April 13, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 3, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 23, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2017
- Tornado, July 19, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2017
- Tornado, May 17, 2017
- Hail, May 16, 2017
- Tornado, May 15, 2017
- Hail, April 9, 2017
- Heavy Snow, March 12, 2017
- Hail, March 6, 2017
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2016
- Flood, October 27, 2016
- Tornado, September 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 23, 2016
- Funnel Cloud, July 30, 2016
- Heat, July 21, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2016
- Strong Wind, April 2, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- Blizzard, February 7, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2015
- Tornado, July 16, 2015
- Tornado, June 22, 2015
- Hail, May 7, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2015
- Blizzard, January 8, 2015
- Flood, June 16, 2014
- Blizzard, February 20, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Blizzard, January 26, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Hail, July 22, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Tornado, May 31, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2013
- Heavy Snow, May 2, 2013
- Flood, April 9, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 10, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Blizzard, December 20, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Drought, July 17, 2012
- Heat, July 2, 2012
- Hail, May 4, 2012
- Hail, May 1, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- High Wind, January 1, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 17, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2011
- Hail, April 9, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Dense Fog, December 29, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2010
- Blizzard, December 10, 2010
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Flood, September 23, 2010
- Hail, June 25, 2010
- Flood, June 23, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2010
- Lightning, June 4, 2010
- Flood, March 10, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 28, 2010
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 8, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2010
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 10, 2009
- Blizzard, December 8, 2009
- Hail, April 24, 2009
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2009
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 20, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2008
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 14, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2008
- High Wind, October 26, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2008
- Flood, June 12, 2008
- Hail, June 10, 2008
- Tornado, June 7, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 10, 2008
- Blizzard, January 29, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2007
- Hail, June 7, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 11, 2007
- Hail, March 21, 2007
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2007
- Blizzard, February 24, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2007
- Hail, October 4, 2006
- Hail, August 25, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2006
- Hail, June 14, 2006
- Hail, May 29, 2006
- Hail, May 8, 2006
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2005
- Hail, September 13, 2005
- Funnel Cloud, July 15, 2005
- Tornado, March 30, 2005
- Winter Storm, March 17, 2005
- Blizzard, January 22, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 1, 2005
- High Wind, December 12, 2004
- Flood, September 15, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2004
- Tornado, June 16, 2004
- Tornado, June 11, 2004
- Flood, May 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2004
- High Wind, April 18, 2004
- Hail, April 17, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2004
- Tornado, July 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2003
- Hail, May 10, 2003
- Winter Storm, April 7, 2003
- Hail, July 18, 2002
- Hail, June 19, 2002
- Tornado, May 8, 2002
- Blizzard, March 9, 2002
- High Wind, October 25, 2001
- Hail, September 22, 2001
- Hail, September 20, 2001
- Heat, August 1, 2001
- Heat, July 31, 2001
- Hail, July 21, 2001
- Hail, June 18, 2001
- Tornado, April 11, 2001
- High Wind, April 7, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 6, 2001
- Flood, April 5, 2001
- Ice Storm, February 24, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2001
- Ice Storm, February 7, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2000
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Mitchell CountyEvery warning in Mitchell 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.