Iowa

Storm History: Worth County, Iowa

354 episodes, 513 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Worth 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
513
Deaths
3
Injuries
9
Damage
$126 million
Episodes
354

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
Tornado11304$15 million
Hail8402$1.4 million
Flash Flood6200$3.0 million
Blizzard4100$580,000
High Wind3500$1.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind3300$196,000
Winter Storm2800$456,000
Heavy Snow2000$135,000
Drought1900$75 million
Flood1700$21 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1700
Ice Storm1200$151,000
Frost/Freeze1000$6.7 million
Cold/Wind Chill900$294,000
Funnel Cloud400
Excessive Heat300$135,000
Heavy Rain200
Lightning100$5,000
Heat100
Winter Weather100
Dense Fog133

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 Worth County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Worth CountyEvery warning in Worth 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.