Heavy Rain in Nebraska
Every heavy rain event the National Weather Service has filed in Nebraska, year by year, with the most significant episodes. Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
The most significant on the map
The most significant heavy rain episodes in Nebraska.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 681
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $15 million
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 22 to 24, 2003Thunderstorms erupted during the evening in south-central Nebraska. One storm near Aurora produced very large hail. One stone measured by an NWS Storm Survey team was determined to be the largest sized stone to fall in the United States.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 10 to 12, 2014Multiple thunderstorms formed along and southeast of a line from Red Cloud to York on this Sunday afternoon. However, most of the severe weather was produced by a single supercell.
- Hail and Heavy Rain in Nebraska, June 12, 2002A wicked severe thunderstorm ripped across Buffalo and Kearney counties, dumping hail larger than softballs and causing about 100 million dollars in damage in those two counties.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, May 6 to 7, 2015Thunderstorms developed early this Wednesday afternoon and evening, and predominantly produced tornadoes and flash flooding. With no cap in place, scattered thunderstorms began developing as early as the noon hour over north central Kansas.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 3 to 4, 2014For roughly the northeast half of this 24-county South Central Nebraska area, this late Tuesday afternoon and evening featured one of the most widespread severe weather events of the 2014 convective season.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, June 14 to 15, 2014During a month that had several rounds of severe weather in South Central Nebraska, what transpired on this Saturday evening into the very early morning of Sunday the 15th was likely one of the most significant severe weather events of the entire 2014 convective season,…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, July 9 to 10, 2014A large swath of severe crop damage occurred on this Wednesday evening. Isolated thunderstorms occurred through the afternoon over the Sandhills, generally dissipating as they moved southeast into South Central Nebraska.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, August 1 to 2, 2013This Thursday evening featured the most significant severe weather event of mid-late summer 2013 within South Central Nebraska, occurring mainly between 6 pm and midnight CDT as a series of multicell storm clusters with a few embedded supercells sank southward through the area,…
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Nebraska, May 2 to 3, 2012Multiple severe thunderstorms produced large hail up to softball size, localized flooding rains and one EF1 tornado between the evening of Wednesday the 2nd and early morning hours of Thursday the 3rd.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, June 19, 2000After weeks of little or no rain, thunderstorms unleashed a torrent of rain, hail and high winds across much of south-central Nebraska.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, June 14 to 15, 2012This Thursday afternoon and evening featured by far the most widespread severe weather and heavy rain event of the month within South Central Nebraska, although several northwestern counties hardly even saw a drop of rain as the majority of storms concentrated south of a line…
- Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, June 20 to 21, 2014Although ground-truth reports of severe-criteria hail and wind emanated from only seven counties mainly within northern and central portions of South Central Nebraska on this Friday, the coverage of non-severe thunderstorms and locally heavy rain became rather widespread across…
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 14 to 15, 2012Multiple rounds of severe thunderstorms pounded parts of the 24-county area on this Saturday, resulting in numerous reports of large hail and damaging winds along with four brief EF0 tornadoes.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, May 19 to 20, 2012Ending a lull of over two weeks without severe thunderstorms, this Saturday afternoon and early evening featured several reports of damaging winds, large hail and gustnadoes, primarily focused within southern and eastern counties of South Central Nebraska such as Webster, Clay,…
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 19 to 20, 2011In terms of widespread, high-impact severe weather, the 24-hour period commencing on Sunday evening the 19th was likely the worst of the 2011 severe weather season for much of South Central Nebraska.
- Flash Flood and Flooding in Nebraska, June 4 to 12, 2015For the third consecutive night, this time from the evening of Thursday the 4th into the early morning of Friday the 5th, several rounds of thunderstorms rumbled across much of the 24-county South Central Nebraska area.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 29 to 30, 2013There was a lot of active weather across South Central Nebraska on this Wednesday, occurring in multiple episodes throughout the entire day, culminating in seven tornadoes. Three of these tornadoes were classified as EF-1 with the other four producing EF-0 damage.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, July 5 to 6, 2011Between the mid-afternoon and late-evening hours on this Wednesday, separate corridors of severe thunderstorms rolled southward across both eastern and western sections of South Central Nebraska.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, April 18, 2005A wild night of weather became the first major severe weather event of the season in south central Nebraska. Severe thunderstorms were responsible for tornadoes, very large hail and flash flooding, mainly east of Columbus to Hastings line. Fillmore County was hardest hit.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Nebraska, May 27, 2019A stalled out frontal boundary draped from southern Nebraska into northeastern Colorado served as the focal point for thunderstorms. Thunderstorms initiated over northeastern Colorado and became severe as they tracked east into southwestern Nebraska.
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, September 13, 2010Thunderstorms developed by mid afternoon on Sept. 13 along and north of a warm front that had moved into east central Nebraska. The air mass south of the boundary was moderately unstable with temperatures in the mid to upper 80s and dew point temperatures around 70.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, May 10 to 11, 2016Thunderstorms produced mostly hail along with a little wind damage, and excessive rainfall on this Tuesday afternoon and evening.
- Flash Flood and Hail in Nebraska, August 22 to 23, 2021Between the late afternoon of Sunday the 22nd and sunrise on Monday the 23rd, primarily some southern-southwestern counties in South Central Nebraska (along with briefly a few northwestern ones) endured an active episode of strong to severe thunderstorms.
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, September 15, 2017A few storms produced severe hail a possibly a couple severe wind gusts on this Friday afternoon and evening. The first couple storms formed southwest of Holdrege between 3 and 4 PM CST.
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Nebraska, May 27 to 28, 2016Isolated flash flooding occurred on this Friday afternoon and evening, along with some marginally severe hail in a couple spots. Between 3 and 5 p.m.
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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.