Nevada

Storm History: Elko County, Nevada

608 episodes, 1,357 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Elko 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
1,357
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
608

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
Heavy Snow59500$50,000
High Wind30101$20,000
Thunderstorm Wind17700$4.2 million
Flash Flood10000$9.5 million
Hail3900
Flood3500$137,000
Winter Storm3101$3.0 million
Tornado3000$322,000
Dust Storm1300
Debris Flow700$37,000
Wildfire703$1.0 million
Funnel Cloud500
Blizzard500
Frost/Freeze300
Winter Weather300
Avalanche311
Dust Devil204$501,000
Freezing Fog100

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

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Elko CountyEvery warning in Elko 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.