Nebraska

Storm History: Pawnee County, Nebraska

290 episodes, 349 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pawnee 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
349
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.5 million
Episodes
290

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
Hail8800
Tornado7301$445,000
Winter Storm4000$670,000
Thunderstorm Wind2700$187,000
Flash Flood2000$1,000
Heat1400
Cold/Wind Chill1300
High Wind1200
Drought1200
Excessive Heat1200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Blizzard900
Heavy Snow800
Flood600
Ice Storm300$200,000
Lightning100$40,000
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Pawnee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pawnee CountyEvery warning in Pawnee 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.