Nevada

Storm History: Lincoln County, Nevada

225 episodes, 284 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lincoln 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
284
Deaths
0
Injuries
16
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
225

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
Flash Flood10700$1.9 million
High Wind6800$862,000
Heavy Snow5000$52,000
Excessive Heat1600
Thunderstorm Wind1000$10,000
Tornado1000$252,000
Hail900$1,000
Flood600$20 million
Dust Storm309
Winter Storm100$10,000
Wildfire100$75,000
Winter Weather107
Dense Fog100
Funnel Cloud100

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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lincoln CountyEvery warning in Lincoln 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.