Iowa

Storm History: Muscatine County, Iowa

495 episodes, 726 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Muscatine 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
726
Deaths
4
Injuries
25
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
495

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
Hail18401$659,000
Tornado157211$19 million
Flash Flood8512$457,000
Winter Storm7010
Flood5600$12 million
Winter Weather3500
Thunderstorm Wind30010$2.1 million
Heavy Snow2000$10,000
Drought1500$25 million
Blizzard1300
High Wind1100$125,000
Dense Fog1100
Ice Storm1101$497,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Frost/Freeze600$396,000
Cold/Wind Chill500
Heat400
Strong Wind100
Lightning100$2,000
Excessive 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 Muscatine County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Muscatine CountyEvery warning in Muscatine 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.