Storm History: Knox County, Nebraska
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Knox 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
- 776
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 113
- Damage
- $17 million
- Episodes
- 599
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 282 | 0 | 0 | $5.8 million |
| Tornado | 138 | 1 | 112 | $5.8 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 76 | 0 | 0 | $559,000 |
| Winter Storm | 54 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 0 | 0 | $1.3 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 39 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 25 | 0 | 0 | $3.0 million |
| High Wind | 23 | 0 | 1 | $53,000 |
| Drought | 22 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 16 | 0 | 0 | $295,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 12 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Ice Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 2 | 0 | 0 | $500 |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Blizzard, November 28, 2005
- Tornado, April 20, 1985
- Hail, June 14, 1996
- Hail, August 14, 1997
- Hail, June 23, 2000
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2019
- Tornado, May 5, 2007
- Tornado, May 15, 1992
- Tornado, October 16, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 1993
- Tornado, April 25, 1994
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2006
- Tornado, May 30, 1959
- Tornado, June 21, 1981
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Hail, July 16, 1996
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2010
- Hail, July 7, 1997
- Hail, June 3, 2000
- Flood, July 1, 2011
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2014
- Hail, June 23, 1998
- Hail, August 7, 1994
- Hail, July 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2025
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2011
- Hail, May 7, 1986
- Hail, July 29, 1968
- Hail, July 17, 1960
- Hail, July 18, 1986
- Hail, August 10, 2007
- Hail, June 4, 2005
- Hail, July 5, 2003
- Hail, June 23, 2000
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 6, 1975
- Tornado, October 4, 2013
- Tornado, June 11, 1984
- Tornado, May 30, 1959
- Tornado, June 13, 1950
- Tornado, May 18, 1960
- Tornado, June 21, 1975
- Tornado, May 19, 1977
- Tornado, June 25, 1978
- Tornado, May 29, 1980
- Tornado, August 10, 1980
- Tornado, October 16, 1980
- Tornado, April 20, 1985
- Tornado, May 18, 1990
- Tornado, June 4, 1991
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 29, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2026
- Drought, June 1, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Blizzard, March 15, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 17, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2026
- High Wind, January 21, 2026
- High Wind, December 18, 2025
- High Wind, December 9, 2025
- High Wind, November 25, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2025
- Hail, July 28, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2025
- Hail, July 19, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2025
- Drought, July 1, 2025
- Excessive Heat, June 20, 2025
- Hail, June 14, 2025
- Drought, June 1, 2025
- Drought, May 1, 2025
- Hail, April 28, 2025
- Drought, April 1, 2025
- Blizzard, March 4, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- High Wind, December 19, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 28, 2024
- Excessive Heat, July 14, 2024
- Tornado, June 21, 2024
- Tornado, May 19, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 6, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 25, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 12, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 7, 2024
- Blizzard, December 25, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 19, 2023
- Hail, July 24, 2023
- Hail, July 19, 2023
- Tornado, July 12, 2023
- Hail, July 10, 2023
- Hail, June 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2023
- Hail, March 30, 2023
- Winter Storm, March 22, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 17, 2023
- Ice Storm, February 22, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2023
- Ice Storm, January 2, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2022
- Tornado, June 14, 2022
- Hail, May 30, 2022
- Tornado, May 29, 2022
- Hail, May 12, 2022
- High Wind, April 23, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 30, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- High Wind, January 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 29, 2020
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 9, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2020
- Hail, July 17, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2020
- Hail, July 6, 2020
- Hail, May 5, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- Hail, September 30, 2019
- Hail, August 7, 2019
- Hail, July 26, 2019
- Flood, May 26, 2019
- Blizzard, April 11, 2019
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2019
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2019
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 29, 2019
- High Wind, January 28, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 27, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2018
- Hail, July 4, 2018
- Tornado, June 30, 2018
- Hail, June 17, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 17, 2018
- Blizzard, April 14, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 3, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 5, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2018
- Hail, August 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2017
- Hail, August 13, 2017
- Tornado, April 15, 2017
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2017
- Flood, February 14, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 15, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 25, 2016
- Heavy Snow, November 18, 2016
- Hail, August 16, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2016
- Hail, May 25, 2016
- Blizzard, February 1, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 20, 2015
- Tornado, September 22, 2015
- Hail, September 9, 2015
- Hail, July 28, 2015
- Hail, July 17, 2015
- Hail, July 5, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2014
- Hail, September 19, 2014
- Hail, July 26, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2014
- Hail, June 1, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2014
- High Wind, January 16, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 29, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 23, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2013
- Tornado, October 4, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2013
- Hail, August 10, 2013
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Drought, August 1, 2013
- Hail, June 21, 2013
- Tornado, May 29, 2013
- Hail, May 26, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- Winter Storm, April 9, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 31, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, December 27, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- High Wind, October 18, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Drought, July 17, 2012
- Heat, July 17, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 3, 2012
- Hail, May 4, 2012
- Tornado, April 15, 2012
- Flood, September 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2011
- Tornado, August 18, 2011
- Flood, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 15, 2011
- Flood, July 1, 2011
- Tornado, June 20, 2011
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Hail, May 29, 2011
- Flood, May 26, 2011
- Winter Storm, April 15, 2011
- Flood, March 12, 2011
- Ice Storm, February 20, 2011
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2011
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 1, 2011
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 31, 2010
- Blizzard, December 11, 2010
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 8, 2010
- Hail, August 8, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 26, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 22, 2010
- Flood, June 11, 2010
- Hail, June 3, 2010
- Hail, April 24, 2010
- Blizzard, February 14, 2010
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 8, 2010
- Blizzard, January 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2010
- Blizzard, December 24, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 9, 2009
- Blizzard, December 7, 2009
- Hail, August 19, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2009
- Hail, July 10, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2009
- Hail, June 25, 2009
- Hail, June 18, 2009
- Tornado, June 17, 2009
- Hail, May 20, 2009
- Blizzard, April 4, 2009
- Winter Storm, March 31, 2009
- Tornado, March 23, 2009
- Hail, March 23, 2009
- Winter Weather, March 9, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2009
- Blizzard, January 12, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 20, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 14, 2008
- Hail, September 28, 2008
- Hail, June 21, 2008
- Tornado, June 19, 2008
- Tornado, June 5, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2008
- Tornado, May 29, 2008
- Hail, May 24, 2008
- Hail, May 6, 2008
- Hail, May 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, April 10, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 31, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 20, 2008
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2008
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2008
- Ice Storm, December 1, 2007
- Hail, September 30, 2007
- Hail, August 21, 2007
- Hail, August 10, 2007
- Hail, August 9, 2007
- Hail, July 15, 2007
- Tornado, May 5, 2007
- Hail, May 4, 2007
- Flood, March 10, 2007
- Blizzard, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2007
- Flood, February 20, 2007
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2007
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2007
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 2007
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Knox CountyEvery warning in Knox 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.