Nebraska

Storm History: Garden County, Nebraska

455 episodes, 672 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Garden 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
672
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
455

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
Hail28400$7.6 million
Tornado11701$1.4 million
Drought6900$12 million
Flash Flood5000$670,000
High Wind3900$20,000
Winter Storm3800$10,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$195,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Blizzard1300$100,000
Wildfire400$15 million
Heavy Snow300$10,000
Lightning210$50,000
Flood100

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 Garden County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Garden CountyEvery warning in Garden 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.