Nebraska

Storm History: Knox County, Nebraska

599 episodes, 776 events since 1950

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.

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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
Hail28200$5.8 million
Tornado1381112$5.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind7600$559,000
Winter Storm5400$500,000
Flash Flood4500$1.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill3900
Blizzard2500$3.0 million
High Wind2301$53,000
Drought2200
Flood1600$295,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1500
Heavy Snow1300
Excessive Heat1200$2,000
Ice Storm600
Winter Weather400
Heat300
Lightning200$500
Funnel Cloud100

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 Knox County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.