Nebraska

Storm History: Burt County, Nebraska

397 episodes, 492 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Burt 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
492
Deaths
1
Injuries
38
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
397

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
Hail10900
Tornado97037$9.2 million
Winter Storm4800
Thunderstorm Wind4300$141,000
Cold/Wind Chill3300
High Wind3301$10,000
Flash Flood2900$507,000
Blizzard2510
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Excessive Heat1300
Heat1200
Drought1200
Flood900$190,000
Heavy Snow400
Ice Storm400
Lightning300$50,000
Winter Weather200
Funnel Cloud100
Strong Wind100$5,000
Dust Storm100$1,000

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 Burt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Burt CountyEvery warning in Burt 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.