Storm History: Valley County, Nebraska
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Valley 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
- 615
- Deaths
- 12
- Injuries
- 4
- Damage
- $142 million
- Episodes
- 443
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 | 199 | 0 | 0 | $72 million |
| Tornado | 103 | 12 | 4 | $23 million |
| Drought | 54 | 0 | 0 | $35 million |
| High Wind | 53 | 0 | 0 | $2.1 million |
| Winter Storm | 52 | 0 | 0 | $110,000 |
| Winter Weather | 35 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 29 | 0 | 0 | $837,000 |
| Flash Flood | 27 | 0 | 0 | $7.9 million |
| Blizzard | 17 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Wildfire | 10 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Ice Storm | 7 | 0 | 0 | $245,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dust Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | $350,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | $300,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hail, July 9, 2014
- Drought, December 1, 2002
- Hail, July 24, 2013
- Drought, September 1, 2000
- Hail, May 12, 2022
- Hail, August 3, 2005
- Tornado, June 19, 2000
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, August 17, 2014
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2019
- Tornado, June 11, 1997
- Tornado, June 3, 1999
- Tornado, July 21, 2000
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2019
- High Wind, October 26, 2017
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2015
- Tornado, May 30, 2011
- Hail, July 10, 2011
- Tornado, June 3, 2014
- Hail, June 30, 1997
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, June 7, 1953
- Tornado, August 5, 1960
- Tornado, July 20, 1972
- Tornado, April 20, 1974
- Tornado, June 3, 1999
- Tornado, June 20, 2011
- Tornado, May 28, 1959
- Tornado, April 26, 1962
- Tornado, June 9, 1963
- Tornado, August 27, 1963
- Tornado, July 19, 1975
- Tornado, May 29, 1980
- Tornado, August 10, 1980
- Tornado, August 4, 1981
- Tornado, June 17, 1984
Every episode, newest first
- High Wind, March 15, 2026
- Winter Weather, March 11, 2026
- Drought, March 3, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2025
- High Wind, May 16, 2025
- Dust Storm, May 14, 2025
- Drought, May 1, 2025
- Drought, April 1, 2025
- Blizzard, March 18, 2025
- High Wind, March 14, 2025
- Winter Weather, March 7, 2025
- High Wind, March 4, 2025
- Drought, March 1, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2025
- Drought, February 1, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 4, 2025
- Drought, January 1, 2025
- High Wind, December 19, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2024
- High Wind, November 20, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Hail, July 31, 2024
- Hail, June 25, 2024
- Hail, June 7, 2024
- Tornado, April 15, 2024
- Blizzard, March 24, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 11, 2024
- Blizzard, January 8, 2024
- Blizzard, December 25, 2023
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2023
- Tornado, October 3, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Hail, September 23, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 7, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Heat, August 19, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Tornado, July 29, 2023
- Hail, July 18, 2023
- Drought, July 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Tornado, May 12, 2023
- Hail, May 6, 2023
- Drought, May 1, 2023
- Drought, April 1, 2023
- Hail, March 30, 2023
- Drought, March 1, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2023
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 21, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Drought, August 30, 2022
- Hail, July 16, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- Hail, May 29, 2022
- Hail, May 12, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- High Wind, April 30, 2022
- Tornado, April 29, 2022
- Wildfire, April 22, 2022
- High Wind, April 12, 2022
- Wildfire, April 7, 2022
- High Wind, April 6, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- Hail, March 29, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- Tornado, December 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 10, 2021
- High Wind, November 11, 2021
- Hail, August 15, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2021
- High Wind, March 14, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2021
- Drought, February 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2021
- Wildfire, January 14, 2021
- Drought, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2020
- Blizzard, December 23, 2020
- Drought, December 1, 2020
- High Wind, November 14, 2020
- Ice Storm, November 9, 2020
- High Wind, November 8, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2020
- Winter Weather, October 24, 2020
- Winter Weather, October 17, 2020
- Drought, October 6, 2020
- Hail, August 30, 2020
- Hail, July 10, 2020
- Tornado, July 8, 2020
- Hail, June 4, 2020
- Hail, June 3, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 2020
- High Wind, April 28, 2020
- Winter Weather, April 16, 2020
- Hail, March 19, 2020
- Winter Weather, March 13, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 28, 2019
- Winter Weather, December 14, 2019
- High Wind, November 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 26, 2019
- High Wind, October 20, 2019
- Hail, September 18, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 11, 2019
- Flood, August 26, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2019
- Tornado, May 17, 2019
- Winter Storm, April 10, 2019
- Winter Weather, March 29, 2019
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2019
- High Wind, March 9, 2019
- Heavy Snow, March 6, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2019
- High Wind, January 28, 2019
- Blizzard, December 27, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 1, 2018
- High Wind, October 3, 2018
- Hail, July 28, 2018
- Hail, July 18, 2018
- Tornado, June 24, 2018
- Tornado, June 19, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2018
- Tornado, June 1, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 2018
- Dust Storm, April 30, 2018
- Dust Storm, April 29, 2018
- Blizzard, April 13, 2018
- Heavy Snow, April 1, 2018
- Wildfire, March 5, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 9, 2018
- Blizzard, January 22, 2018
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 24, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2017
- High Wind, December 4, 2017
- High Wind, November 24, 2017
- High Wind, October 26, 2017
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2017
- Hail, August 2, 2017
- Hail, July 21, 2017
- Hail, July 2, 2017
- Hail, June 21, 2017
- Winter Storm, April 29, 2017
- Hail, April 14, 2017
- Hail, March 23, 2017
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 15, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2017
- Tornado, December 25, 2016
- Wildfire, December 21, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2016
- Hail, July 26, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2016
- Winter Storm, March 23, 2016
- High Wind, February 19, 2016
- Blizzard, February 2, 2016
- Winter Weather, December 25, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2015
- Flash Flood, September 9, 2015
- Hail, July 24, 2015
- Hail, July 17, 2015
- Hail, July 14, 2015
- Hail, June 10, 2015
- Hail, June 6, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2014
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2014
- Hail, August 17, 2014
- Hail, August 2, 2014
- Hail, July 9, 2014
- Hail, June 30, 2014
- Flood, June 20, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2014
- Tornado, June 3, 2014
- Drought, June 1, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Drought, April 1, 2014
- Drought, March 1, 2014
- High Wind, January 20, 2014
- High Wind, January 16, 2014
- Drought, September 1, 2013
- Drought, August 1, 2013
- Hail, August 1, 2013
- Hail, July 24, 2013
- Tornado, July 9, 2013
- Hail, July 7, 2013
- Drought, July 1, 2013
- Hail, June 22, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2013
- Drought, June 1, 2013
- Hail, May 26, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- Winter Weather, April 22, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Blizzard, December 19, 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 10, 2012
- Hail, June 22, 2012
- Hail, May 4, 2012
- Tornado, April 15, 2012
- Tornado, April 14, 2012
- Tornado, February 28, 2012
- High Wind, February 23, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 3, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 8, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 3, 2011
- High Wind, November 26, 2011
- Hail, August 21, 2011
- Hail, August 11, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 15, 2011
- Hail, July 10, 2011
- Hail, June 26, 2011
- Tornado, June 20, 2011
- Tornado, June 14, 2011
- Hail, June 9, 2011
- Tornado, May 30, 2011
- High Wind, April 29, 2011
- Winter Weather, March 7, 2011
Earlier years, state by state:
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Tornadoes in Valley CountyEvery warning in Valley 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.