Storm History: Clay County, Nebraska
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clay 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
- 844
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 5
- Damage
- $350 million
- Episodes
- 499
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 268 | 0 | 0 | $99 million |
| Tornado | 262 | 0 | 5 | $179 million |
| Winter Storm | 67 | 0 | 0 | $220,000 |
| Flash Flood | 58 | 0 | 0 | $10 million |
| Drought | 46 | 0 | 0 | $35 million |
| Winter Weather | 26 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| High Wind | 25 | 0 | 0 | $7,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $23 million |
| Flood | 19 | 0 | 0 | $870,000 |
| Blizzard | 17 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $2.0 million |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | $400,000 |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $415,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, July 1, 1994
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2021
- Drought, December 1, 2002
- Tornado, June 14, 2022
- Hail, July 28, 2023
- Tornado, May 10, 2014
- Drought, September 1, 2000
- Tornado, May 27, 2013
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Tornado, June 7, 2022
- Hail, October 1, 2014
- Tornado, August 22, 2007
- Tornado, May 22, 2004
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, May 19, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2015
- Tornado, June 14, 2014
- Hail, July 7, 2014
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 5, 1964
- Tornado, June 6, 1956
- Tornado, April 25, 1957
- Tornado, May 10, 1985
- Tornado, March 13, 1990
- Tornado, September 18, 1986
- Tornado, September 22, 2001
- Tornado, October 9, 2001
- Tornado, May 10, 2014
- Tornado, April 25, 1964
- Tornado, April 15, 1976
- Tornado, July 10, 1977
- Tornado, April 5, 1978
- Tornado, April 7, 1978
- Tornado, October 16, 1980
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, March 17, 2026
- High Wind, March 15, 2026
- Hail, August 9, 2025
- Hail, May 19, 2025
- Drought, May 13, 2025
- Blizzard, March 18, 2025
- High Wind, March 4, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Tornado, July 6, 2024
- Hail, June 18, 2024
- Hail, June 7, 2024
- Tornado, May 23, 2024
- Tornado, May 6, 2024
- Tornado, May 3, 2024
- Drought, May 1, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 6, 2024
- Drought, April 1, 2024
- Blizzard, March 24, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2024
- Drought, March 1, 2024
- Drought, February 1, 2024
- High Wind, January 18, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Blizzard, January 8, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Blizzard, December 25, 2023
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Tornado, October 3, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Heat, August 19, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Hail, July 30, 2023
- Tornado, July 29, 2023
- Hail, July 28, 2023
- Hail, July 22, 2023
- Hail, July 4, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Hail, June 8, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Hail, May 6, 2023
- Drought, May 1, 2023
- Hail, April 18, 2023
- Drought, April 1, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Drought, March 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Wildfire, October 23, 2022
- Drought, October 11, 2022
- Hail, July 16, 2022
- Tornado, June 14, 2022
- Tornado, June 7, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- Hail, May 12, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- High Wind, April 30, 2022
- Tornado, April 29, 2022
- Wildfire, April 22, 2022
- Hail, April 21, 2022
- Drought, April 19, 2022
- High Wind, April 12, 2022
- Wildfire, April 7, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2022
- Tornado, December 15, 2021
- Hail, August 7, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2021
- Hail, June 24, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2021
- Hail, June 15, 2021
- Tornado, May 5, 2021
- High Wind, March 29, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2021
- Wildfire, January 14, 2021
- Drought, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2020
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 11, 2020
- Drought, December 1, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 9, 2020
- High Wind, November 8, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2020
- Hail, October 11, 2020
- Drought, October 1, 2020
- Drought, September 1, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2020
- Tornado, August 14, 2020
- Hail, August 6, 2020
- Tornado, July 8, 2020
- Hail, June 9, 2020
- Hail, June 4, 2020
- Winter Weather, April 16, 2020
- Winter Weather, March 13, 2020
- High Wind, November 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Flood, August 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2019
- Flood, June 25, 2019
- Flood, June 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2019
- Hail, June 8, 2019
- Flood, May 27, 2019
- Hail, May 25, 2019
- Hail, May 5, 2019
- Hail, April 17, 2019
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2019
- Winter Weather, March 2, 2019
- Blizzard, February 23, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 15, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2019
- Winter Weather, December 1, 2018
- Blizzard, November 24, 2018
- Winter Weather, October 14, 2018
- Hail, September 20, 2018
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 1, 2018
- Tornado, August 6, 2018
- Tornado, June 30, 2018
- Tornado, June 1, 2018
- Hail, May 10, 2018
- Tornado, May 1, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2017
- Hail, June 13, 2017
- Tornado, May 16, 2017
- Hail, April 9, 2017
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 15, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Tornado, December 25, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2016
- Hail, May 29, 2016
- Hail, May 26, 2016
- Tornado, May 23, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2016
- Tornado, May 9, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2016
- High Wind, April 7, 2016
- Hail, March 30, 2016
- Blizzard, February 2, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 25, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 24, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 14, 2015
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2015
- Hail, July 24, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2015
- Tornado, May 6, 2015
- Hail, May 1, 2015
- Hail, April 16, 2015
- Hail, April 12, 2015
- Hail, April 1, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2015
- Hail, October 1, 2014
- Hail, August 31, 2014
- Hail, August 17, 2014
- Hail, July 7, 2014
- Flood, June 20, 2014
- Tornado, June 14, 2014
- Tornado, May 10, 2014
- Hail, April 23, 2014
- High Wind, March 26, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- High Wind, January 18, 2014
- High Wind, January 16, 2014
- Heavy Snow, December 7, 2013
- Flash Flood, October 2, 2013
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Drought, July 1, 2013
- Drought, June 1, 2013
- Tornado, May 29, 2013
- Tornado, May 27, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Blizzard, March 9, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 31, 2012
- Blizzard, December 19, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- High Wind, October 18, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Drought, July 24, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2012
- Tornado, May 27, 2012
- Hail, May 19, 2012
- Tornado, May 2, 2012
- Hail, May 1, 2012
- Tornado, April 14, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 3, 2012
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 15, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2011
- Tornado, May 30, 2011
- Hail, May 29, 2011
- Flood, May 19, 2011
- Tornado, May 11, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 8, 2011
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2010
- Hail, September 13, 2010
- Flood, August 23, 2010
- Hail, July 14, 2010
- Hail, June 22, 2010
- Hail, June 21, 2010
- Hail, June 19, 2010
- Blizzard, December 24, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 7, 2009
- Flood, August 26, 2009
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Clay CountyEvery warning in Clay 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.