Nebraska Storm History: Every Flood, Storm and Heat Wave Since 1950

The worst in Nebraska on the map

The deadliest and costliest episodes on record here, colored by kind of event.

Tornadoes
Tropical storms and surge
Floods
Wind
Hail
Winter weather
Heat and drought
Cold
Fire, smoke and dust
Marine and coastal
Other

The record

Events: 64,003
Deaths: 182
Injuries: 1,883
Damage: $8.8 billion

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

Tap a year for every episode in it.

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.

Deaths each year

By kind of event

Kind of event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	25,051	0	99	$3.0 billion
Thunderstorm Wind	13,616	7	138	$1.2 billion
Winter Storm	4,055	18	28	$59 million
High Wind	3,649	3	28	$33 million
Drought	3,444	0	0	$1.2 billion
Tornado	3,400	56	1,216	$1.9 billion
Winter Weather	1,805	35	67	$2.3 million
Flash Flood	1,333	6	5	$324 million
Blizzard	1,179	12	23	$27 million
Cold/Wind Chill	1,118	4	3	$890,000
Flood	1,030	7	3	$887 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	1,027	2	24
Heavy Snow	736	1	0	$58 million
Heavy Rain	681	0	0	$15 million
Heat	450	5	114	$12 million
Funnel Cloud	381	0	0
Excessive Heat	301	1	21
Ice Storm	288	6	5	$78 million
Lightning	204	5	29	$31 million
Wildfire	88	5	48	$73 million
Frost/Freeze	67	0	0	$1.3 million
Strong Wind	54	2	5	$1.6 million
Dust Storm	36	4	25	$840,000
Dense Fog	6	3	2	$485,000
Dense Smoke	1	0	0	$30,000
Avalanche	1	0	0
Sleet	1	0	0
Astronomical Low Tide	1	0	0

The deadliest

The costliest

Counties

Every storm event filed in each county, including the zone-filed ones that covered it.

Counties and zones as filed

The places filed most often, as the offices named them.

County or zone	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Lincoln	1,891	0	20	$76 million
Cherry	1,475	0	10	$9.3 million
Custer	1,327	0	17	$23 million
Douglas	1,039	7	185	$883 million
Lancaster	1,000	2	53	$222 million
Holt	888	1	8	$47 million
Scotts Bluff	866	2	79	$131 million
Cheyenne	851	0	2	$36 million
Sheridan	831	0	15	$13 million
Keith	800	2	17	$34 million
Buffalo	796	0	26	$385 million
Adams	793	2	27	$258 million
Dawson	720	1	20	$311 million
Hall	709	6	208	$474 million
Gage	636	1	31	$53 million
Saunders	626	0	28	$69 million
Clay	623	0	5	$309 million
Dodge	617	0	18	$39 million
Thayer	606	6	93	$158 million
Red Willow	600	0	9	$16 million
Cass	594	1	19	$25 million
Chase	582	0	5	$45 million
Furnas	564	1	0	$124 million
Dawes	561	0	21	$3.3 million
Hitchcock	561	1	1	$23 million
Dundy	558	0	4	$59 million
Knox	557	1	112	$14 million
Saline	557	0	8	$162 million
Jefferson	551	1	3	$15 million
Box Butte	541	0	1	$5.1 million
Frontier	539	0	2	$34 million
Madison	536	8	40	$18 million
Sarpy	536	3	16	$443 million
Platte	533	2	19	$24 million
York	521	2	36	$331 million
Perkins	501	0	1	$38 million
Hamilton	498	0	7	$222 million
Garden	491	1	1	$9.9 million
Otoe	475	0	4	$31 million
Phelps	470	1	5	$105 million
Morrill	469	0	1	$11 million
Brown	456	0	1	$14 million
Fillmore	452	0	7	$117 million
Antelope	445	1	0	$34 million
Kimball	438	2	2	$14 million
Seward	418	1	18	$66 million
Howard	414	0	27	$165 million
Nuckolls	395	0	10	$107 million
Cedar	392	1	6	$16 million
Kearney	377	0	0	$114 million
Merrick	374	0	0	$125 million
Butler	373	0	13	$44 million
Dixon	370	0	2	$40 million
Nemaha	366	2	9	$6.0 million
Rock	361	0	0	$4.5 million
Boone	359	4	55	$28 million
Washington	358	1	8	$28 million
Valley	356	12	4	$103 million
Hayes	356	0	0	$15 million
Richardson	355	0	0	$5.5 million
Webster	354	1	0	$114 million
Deuel	344	0	3	$7.1 million
Sioux	336	0	1	$826,000
Franklin	331	0	1	$74 million
Sherman	329	1	14	$104 million
Harlan	329	0	1	$79 million
Polk	325	0	10	$130 million
Cuming	319	1	4	$7.5 million
Hooker	308	0	0	$2.3 million
Stanton	303	1	22	$22 million
Garfield	298	0	1	$3.4 million
Logan	293	1	3	$4.1 million
Blaine	292	0	0	$5.8 million
Burt	290	0	37	$10 million
Dixon zone	287	0	0	$18 million
Dakota zone	285	3	1	$16 million
Pierce	282	0	3	$5.7 million
Gosper	276	0	5	$46 million
Dawson zone	274	4	6	$48 million
Thomas	266	0	0	$3.3 million
McPherson	266	0	0	$694,000
Colfax	265	0	0	$32 million
Hall zone	265	7	16	$48 million
Adams zone	260	0	12	$65 million
Valley zone	259	0	0	$40 million
Grant	258	0	2	$668,000
Buffalo zone	257	6	4	$42 million
Boyd	256	1	8	$24 million
Keya Paha	252	0	1	$4.4 million
Arthur	250	0	0	$1.7 million
Greeley	246	0	12	$59 million
Red Willow zone	245	1	26	$1.7 million
Thurston	244	1	2	$4.7 million
Furnas zone	243	0	0	$44 million
Nance	241	0	0	$64 million
Scotts Bluff zone	239	0	1	$2.6 million
Johnson	238	0	0	$7.5 million
Kearney zone	237	0	1	$47 million
Cheyenne zone	236	2	19	$2.0 million
Loup	235	0	0	$4.9 million
Douglas zone	233	13	118	$18 million
Lancaster zone	227	4	39	$17 million
Dakota	226	0	4	$64 million
Phelps zone	225	0	7	$52 million
Clay zone	221	0	0	$41 million
Gosper zone	220	1	2	$43 million
Knox zone	219	0	1	$3.6 million
Franklin zone	217	1	0	$47 million
Madison zone	217	1	0	$2.0 million
Dodge zone	217	5	1	$11 million
Saunders zone	217	1	4	$2.5 million
Banner	216	0	0	$4.0 million
Cedar zone	216	0	1	$1.0 million
Dundy zone	216	1	0	$195,000
Hamilton zone	215	2	3	$43 million
Webster zone	215	0	0	$39 million
Wayne	214	0	16	$8.2 million
Pawnee	214	0	1	$673,000
Harlan zone	213	0	0	$43 million
Wheeler	212	0	2	$3.8 million
Fillmore zone	212	0	0	$37 million
Kimball zone	212	0	3	$1.8 million
Dawes zone	211	0	0	$76,000
Sherman zone	210	0	0	$37 million
Nuckolls zone	210	0	0	$38 million
Hitchcock zone	210	0	0	$84,000
Greeley zone	209	0	0	$38 million
York zone	209	8	4	$39 million
Howard zone	207	0	0	$40 million
Platte zone	206	2	2	$3.3 million
Sarpy zone	206	2	14	$8.6 million
Antelope zone	204	0	0	$5.0 million
Pierce zone	204	0	0	$1.1 million
Washington zone	204	1	0	$1,000
Wayne zone	202	2	4	$3.3 million
Burt zone	202	1	1	$16,000
Nance zone	201	0	0	$38 million
Merrick zone	200	2	0	$41 million
Polk zone	199	0	9	$39 million
Custer zone	199	4	5	$36 million
Thayer zone	196	0	1	$43 million
Lincoln zone	194	8	9	$49 million
Cuming zone	193	0	2	$771,000
Seward zone	193	3	19	$2.8 million
Butler zone	191	1	0	$1.1 million
Thurston zone	189	0	0	$1,000
Cass zone	187	3	2	$3.2 million
Stanton zone	184	0	8	$8,000
Box Butte zone	182	1	1	$127,000
Garden zone	181	0	0	$27 million

Every year

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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.