Nevada

Storm History: Churchill County, Nevada

241 episodes, 292 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Churchill County, Nevada: 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
292
Deaths
6
Injuries
32
Damage
$4.8 million
Episodes
241

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
High Wind8716$1.2 million
Heavy Snow4700$505,000
Flash Flood3000$2.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2900$20,000
Dust Storm29126$243,000
Debris Flow1000
Dense Fog900
Winter Storm920$150,000
Hail600
Flood600$125,000
Wildfire600
Tornado400
Winter Weather400
Strong Wind410$6,000
Ice Storm310$30,000
Heat200
Heavy Rain200
Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Dust Devil100
Freezing Fog100
Blizzard100

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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Churchill CountyEvery warning in Churchill County since 1986Every county in Nevada

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.