Nebraska

Storm History: Dodge County, Nebraska

602 episodes, 834 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dodge 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
834
Deaths
5
Injuries
19
Damage
$49 million
Episodes
602

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.

Open the live radar over Dodge County

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
Hail25203$32 million
Tornado178012$4.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind8202$106,000
Flash Flood7400$330,000
Winter Storm6000
Flood3701$12 million
Cold/Wind Chill2900
High Wind2600$10,000
Blizzard2220
Drought1400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1310
Heat1210
Excessive Heat1100
Heavy Snow600
Winter Weather600
Ice Storm500
Funnel Cloud300
Lightning100$25,000
Heavy Rain100
Strong Wind101$2,000
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 Dodge County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dodge CountyEvery warning in Dodge 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.