Nebraska

Storm History: Cedar County, Nebraska

493 episodes, 608 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cedar 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
608
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
493

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
Hail18000$3.3 million
Tornado9816$12 million
Winter Storm5600
Thunderstorm Wind5500$260,000
Cold/Wind Chill4000
Flash Flood3700$205,000
High Wind2400$25,000
Blizzard2401
Drought2000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Excessive Heat1600
Flood1400$1.0 million
Heavy Snow1100
Ice Storm500
Winter Weather400
Funnel Cloud300
Heat300
Lightning200$105,000

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 Cedar County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cedar CountyEvery warning in Cedar 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.