Nebraska

Storm History: Otoe County, Nebraska

511 episodes, 644 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Otoe 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
644
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
511

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
Hail20800$97,000
Tornado14003$24 million
Flash Flood5201$6.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind5000$335,000
Winter Storm4500$500,000
Flood3400$502,000
Cold/Wind Chill1800
Blizzard1600
High Wind1511
Heat1400
Excessive Heat1300
Drought1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Heavy Snow700$5.2 million
Ice Storm400
Funnel Cloud300
Winter Weather200
Lightning100$3,000

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 Otoe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Otoe CountyEvery warning in Otoe 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.