Nebraska

Storm History: Wheeler County, Nebraska

274 episodes, 353 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wheeler 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
353
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
274

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
Hail13000$262,000
Tornado5702$884,000
Drought5500$2.0 million
Winter Storm3400$28,000
Flash Flood1900$2.6 million
High Wind1700
Blizzard1400$33,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Thunderstorm Wind600$60,000
Heavy Snow400
Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100
Excessive Heat100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Wheeler County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wheeler CountyEvery warning in Wheeler 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.