Iowa

Storm History: Monona County, Iowa

430 episodes, 516 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Monona 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
516
Deaths
5
Injuries
69
Damage
$293 million
Episodes
430

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
Hail13100$130,000
Tornado106462$254 million
Thunderstorm Wind7002$42,000
Cold/Wind Chill3900
Winter Storm3900
High Wind2400
Blizzard2400
Flash Flood1900$5.7 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Excessive Heat1000
Drought1000
Flood800$34 million
Winter Weather705
Heat600
Funnel Cloud500
Ice Storm300
Heavy Snow200
Strong Wind100$40,000
Dense Fog110

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 Monona County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Monona CountyEvery warning in Monona 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.