Nebraska

Storm History: Kimball County, Nebraska

470 episodes, 650 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kimball 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
650
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
470

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
Hail21701$5.1 million
Tornado14300$7.2 million
High Wind9901$53,000
Flash Flood3900$1.6 million
Heavy Snow3300
Winter Storm3100$200,000
Thunderstorm Wind2900$73,000
Blizzard2600$1.5 million
Winter Weather1123$64,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Flood500$12,000
Heavy Rain300
Funnel Cloud100
Wildfire100
Avalanche100

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 Kimball County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kimball CountyEvery warning in Kimball 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.