Nebraska

Storm History: Chase County, Nebraska

485 episodes, 756 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chase 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
756
Deaths
0
Injuries
6
Damage
$56 million
Episodes
485

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
Hail30702$8.8 million
Tornado16003$33 million
Flash Flood7500$2.5 million
High Wind5700$100,000
Drought5600$11 million
Thunderstorm Wind3800$292,000
Winter Storm3301$56,000
Blizzard1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Heavy Snow600
Flood300
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Wildfire100$45,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Chase County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chase CountyEvery warning in Chase 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.