Nebraska

Storm History: Boyd County, Nebraska

306 episodes, 418 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boyd County, Nebraska: 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
418
Deaths
2
Injuries
8
Damage
$75 million
Episodes
306

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
Hail11800$832,000
Tornado10208$1.7 million
Drought5500$50 million
Winter Storm3900$64,000
Blizzard1910$279,000
High Wind1900$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1800
Thunderstorm Wind1700$30,000
Flash Flood1710$22 million
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm200
Cold/Wind Chill100
Flood100
Excessive Heat100
Frost/Freeze100
Dust Storm100

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 Boyd County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boyd CountyEvery warning in Boyd County since 1986Every county in Nebraska

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.