Nebraska

Storm History: Holt County, Nebraska

550 episodes, 1,061 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Holt 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
1,061
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$113 million
Episodes
550

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
Hail47712$3.9 million
Tornado31405$42 million
Drought6400$60 million
Flash Flood5200$1.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind3900$81,000
Winter Storm3900$88,000
Blizzard2200$5.5 million
High Wind2100$120,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1700
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm200
Flood200$150,000
Dust Storm201$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Excessive Heat100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Holt County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Holt CountyEvery warning in Holt 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.