Storm History: Scott County, Iowa
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Scott 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
- 1,273
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 65
- Damage
- $81 million
- Episodes
- 645
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 | 343 | 1 | 8 | $1.7 million |
| Tornado | 298 | 0 | 7 | $37 million |
| Flash Flood | 166 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 125 | 0 | 2 | $3.2 million |
| Flood | 97 | 0 | 0 | $7.8 million |
| Winter Storm | 70 | 0 | 13 | $375,000 |
| Winter Weather | 41 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $289,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 18 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Ice Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | $318,000 |
| Drought | 15 | 0 | 0 | $29 million |
| Blizzard | 14 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Dense Fog | 11 | 0 | 2 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 7 | 0 | 0 | $396,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 4 | 0 | 12 | |
| Lightning | 3 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 0 | 7 | $5,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sleet | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 1 | 0 | 14 | |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 8, 1988
- Drought, August 1, 2003
- Drought, July 1, 2005
- Flood, June 1, 2008
- Tornado, May 9, 1995
- Tornado, April 4, 1981
- Tornado, May 13, 1974
- Drought, August 1, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 10, 1996
- Tornado, June 12, 2008
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Flood, May 16, 2003
- Flood, August 27, 2009
- Flood, June 17, 2010
- Hail, August 25, 2014
- Flash Flood, March 12, 2006
- Frost/Freeze, May 3, 2005
- Flood, September 11, 2000
- Ice Storm, February 24, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, September 27, 1959
- Hail, June 17, 1992
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Hail, August 16, 1987
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Hail, May 10, 2003
- Hail, June 6, 1999
- Hail, June 1, 1971
- Hail, September 18, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2009
- Hail, July 13, 2015
- Hail, May 20, 2014
- Hail, August 15, 2007
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 15, 1968
- Tornado, January 24, 1967
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Tornado, May 7, 1962
- Tornado, April 19, 1966
- Tornado, May 13, 1974
- Tornado, June 20, 1974
- Tornado, May 8, 1988
- Tornado, March 22, 1991
- Tornado, July 13, 1992
- Tornado, May 9, 1995
- Tornado, July 27, 1995
- Tornado, May 27, 2019
- Tornado, April 26, 1954
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 17, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2026
- Hail, May 17, 2026
- Hail, May 4, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 2026
- Tornado, April 17, 2026
- Tornado, April 2, 2026
- Hail, March 31, 2026
- Blizzard, March 15, 2026
- Tornado, March 10, 2026
- Winter Storm, November 28, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 18, 2025
- Tornado, August 10, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2025
- Tornado, July 11, 2025
- Tornado, July 10, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 20, 2025
- Hail, April 17, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Ice Storm, December 14, 2024
- Hail, October 24, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2024
- Tornado, July 15, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 2, 2024
- Flood, July 1, 2024
- Tornado, June 25, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2024
- Hail, May 27, 2024
- Tornado, May 24, 2024
- Hail, May 7, 2024
- Tornado, April 16, 2024
- Hail, March 4, 2024
- Hail, February 8, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Blizzard, January 8, 2024
- Hail, October 11, 2023
- Tornado, July 28, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, June 24, 2023
- Tornado, May 6, 2023
- Flood, April 22, 2023
- Hail, April 4, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 25, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2023
- Blizzard, December 21, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 5, 2022
- Hail, September 18, 2022
- Tornado, July 5, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2022
- Hail, June 11, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2022
- High Wind, March 25, 2022
- Tornado, March 5, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 28, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 15, 2021
- High Wind, December 15, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2021
- Winter Storm, March 15, 2021
- Blizzard, February 4, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2020
- Hail, September 5, 2020
- Tornado, August 10, 2020
- Hail, July 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2020
- Flood, June 15, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 16, 2020
- Hail, April 7, 2020
- Tornado, March 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 27, 2020
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2020
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 10, 2019
- Winter Weather, October 30, 2019
- Tornado, August 18, 2019
- Tornado, July 9, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2019
- Flood, June 1, 2019
- Flood, June 1, 2019
- Flood, May 27, 2019
- Tornado, May 27, 2019
- High Wind, May 21, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 16, 2019
- Flood, May 1, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2019
- Flood, April 25, 2019
- Hail, April 22, 2019
- Flood, April 1, 2019
- Flood, March 23, 2019
- Flood, March 12, 2019
- Blizzard, February 24, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 7, 2019
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2019
- Blizzard, November 25, 2018
- Flood, October 8, 2018
- Flood, October 1, 2018
- Tornado, August 28, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2018
- Tornado, June 20, 2018
- Tornado, June 9, 2018
- Hail, June 6, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2018
- Hail, May 27, 2018
- Hail, May 13, 2018
- Winter Weather, April 8, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 23, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2017
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2017
- Hail, June 15, 2017
- Tornado, May 17, 2017
- Tornado, March 6, 2017
- Tornado, February 28, 2017
- Winter Storm, December 4, 2016
- Tornado, October 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2016
- Tornado, July 17, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2016
- Hail, May 28, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Tornado, March 15, 2016
- High Wind, February 19, 2016
- Blizzard, December 28, 2015
- Flood, December 21, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 20, 2015
- Tornado, November 11, 2015
- Wildfire, October 12, 2015
- Hail, September 17, 2015
- Tornado, August 18, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 2015
- Hail, August 2, 2015
- Hail, July 13, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2015
- Hail, June 29, 2015
- Tornado, June 20, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2015
- Tornado, April 9, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2015
- Winter Weather, November 15, 2014
- Hail, August 25, 2014
- Flood, July 1, 2014
- Flood, June 30, 2014
- Hail, June 29, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 29, 2014
- Flood, June 23, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2014
- Hail, May 20, 2014
- Hail, April 12, 2014
- Winter Weather, March 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 18, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 21, 2013
- Ice Storm, December 19, 2013
- Hail, November 17, 2013
- Drought, October 1, 2013
- Drought, September 10, 2013
- Heat, August 26, 2013
- Hail, July 19, 2013
- Flood, July 1, 2013
- Tornado, June 24, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2013
- Flood, June 1, 2013
- Tornado, May 30, 2013
- Flood, May 27, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2013
- Hail, May 19, 2013
- Flood, April 17, 2013
- Lightning, April 10, 2013
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2013
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 27, 2013
- Blizzard, December 19, 2012
- Dense Fog, November 21, 2012
- Dense Fog, November 19, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, August 7, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2012
- Drought, July 17, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 4, 2012
- Hail, May 28, 2012
- Hail, May 25, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 15, 2012
- Tornado, May 3, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 11, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 23, 2012
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 23, 2011
- Hail, August 8, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2011
- Hail, June 9, 2011
- Hail, May 29, 2011
- Hail, May 24, 2011
- Tornado, May 22, 2011
- Flood, April 16, 2011
- Hail, March 22, 2011
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2011
- Blizzard, February 1, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 20, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2010
- Blizzard, December 11, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2010
- High Wind, October 26, 2010
- Flood, October 1, 2010
- Flood, August 14, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2010
- Flood, July 28, 2010
- Flood, July 25, 2010
- Flood, July 23, 2010
- High Wind, July 18, 2010
- Flood, July 12, 2010
- Flood, July 8, 2010
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Scott CountyEvery warning in Scott 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.