Nebraska

Storm History: Butler County, Nebraska

430 episodes, 564 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Butler 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
564
Deaths
1
Injuries
13
Damage
$45 million
Episodes
430

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
Hail15200$11 million
Tornado11105$33 million
Thunderstorm Wind4908$119,000
Winter Storm4800
Flash Flood4600$418,000
Cold/Wind Chill2700
High Wind2500$5,000
Blizzard2000
Drought1900
Flood1600$16,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1200
Heat1100
Excessive Heat1000
Heavy Snow700$1.1 million
Winter Weather500
Ice Storm300
Funnel Cloud100
Lightning100
Dense Fog110

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 Butler County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Butler CountyEvery warning in Butler 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.