Nevada

Storm History: Humboldt County, Nevada

240 episodes, 404 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Humboldt 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
404
Deaths
1
Injuries
39
Damage
$4.7 million
Episodes
240

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 Wind14500$46,000
Heavy Snow12500$61,000
Thunderstorm Wind5800$72,000
Flood1700$1,000
Hail1300$3,000
Flash Flood1300$3.0 million
Tornado900
Dust Storm7139$1.5 million
Winter Storm600
Blizzard300
Debris Flow300
Funnel Cloud200
Frost/Freeze100
Wildfire100
Dust Devil100$1,000

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 Humboldt CountyEvery warning in Humboldt 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.