Storm History: Lyon County, Nevada
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lyon 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
- 1,644
- Deaths
- 19
- Injuries
- 147
- Damage
- $720 million
- Episodes
- 1,038
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High Wind | 847 | 2 | 15 | $8.4 million |
| Heavy Snow | 355 | 0 | 10 | $758,000 |
| Dust Storm | 85 | 1 | 26 | $478,000 |
| Winter Storm | 81 | 3 | 15 | $19 million |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 0 | 0 | $6.7 million |
| Strong Wind | 34 | 2 | 2 | $182,000 |
| Wildfire | 31 | 3 | 25 | $43 million |
| Winter Weather | 30 | 2 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 27 | 0 | 0 | $73,000 |
| Debris Flow | 22 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 |
| Flood | 19 | 2 | 50 | $642 million |
| Dense Fog | 17 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Avalanche | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 7 | 1 | 2 | $5,000 |
| Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 5 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 3 | 2 | $30,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Blizzard | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freezing Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Dust Devil | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Smoke | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
- Flood, January 1, 1997
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2002
- Wildfire, November 18, 2011
- Wildfire, January 19, 2012
- High Wind, November 7, 2002
- Winter Storm, December 19, 1998
- Strong Wind, September 16, 2019
- Dust Storm, November 20, 2009
- Ice Storm, December 21, 2006
- High Wind, September 23, 2005
- Hail, May 27, 2008
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 25, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 4, 2007
- Winter Weather, November 2, 2015
- Strong Wind, May 12, 2018
- Wildfire, July 13, 2019
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, January 1, 1997
- Wildfire, October 14, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2022
- Wildfire, November 18, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2022
- Flash Flood, January 4, 2008
- High Wind, December 14, 2002
- Wildfire, January 19, 2012
- Flood, January 7, 2017
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2008
- Flood, December 31, 2005
- High Wind, December 11, 2014
- High Wind, April 27, 2010
- High Wind, January 21, 2002
- High Wind, November 7, 2002
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2011
- Flood, January 1, 2006
- Dust Storm, March 29, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 19, 1998
- High Wind, January 10, 2000
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
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2026
- High Wind, May 17, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2026
- High Wind, April 21, 2026
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2026
- High Wind, April 1, 2026
- High Wind, March 4, 2026
- High Wind, February 24, 2026
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2026
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2026
- Avalanche, December 23, 2025
- High Wind, December 21, 2025
- High Wind, December 19, 2025
- High Wind, December 17, 2025
- Winter Weather, November 20, 2025
- High Wind, November 5, 2025
- High Wind, October 26, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2025
- Flash Flood, August 26, 2025
- Debris Flow, July 30, 2025
- Hail, July 28, 2025
- Wildfire, June 19, 2025
- Dust Storm, May 17, 2025
- High Wind, May 11, 2025
- Winter Weather, April 25, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2025
- High Wind, March 27, 2025
- High Wind, March 19, 2025
- High Wind, March 16, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 12, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 2, 2025
- High Wind, February 24, 2025
- High Wind, February 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2025
- High Wind, January 8, 2025
- High Wind, January 2, 2025
- High Wind, December 26, 2024
- High Wind, December 23, 2024
- High Wind, December 21, 2024
- High Wind, December 15, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 22, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 20, 2024
- High Wind, November 17, 2024
- High Wind, November 13, 2024
- High Wind, November 11, 2024
- High Wind, October 27, 2024
- High Wind, October 4, 2024
- Heavy Rain, September 18, 2024
- High Wind, September 11, 2024
- Wildfire, September 7, 2024
- High Wind, September 2, 2024
- High Wind, August 2, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2024
- High Wind, July 14, 2024
- Heavy Snow, May 4, 2024
- High Wind, April 12, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2024
- High Wind, March 27, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 22, 2024
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2024
- High Wind, February 29, 2024
- High Wind, February 26, 2024
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2024
- High Wind, January 16, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 13, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 6, 2023
- High Wind, November 5, 2023
- High Wind, October 25, 2023
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2023
- Dust Storm, August 14, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 18, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2023
- High Wind, June 8, 2023
- High Wind, June 6, 2023
- High Wind, May 27, 2023
- Debris Flow, May 21, 2023
- Heavy Snow, April 17, 2023
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 28, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 25, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 12, 2023
- Debris Flow, March 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2023
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 26, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2023
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2023
- Debris Flow, January 9, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 8, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 10, 2022
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, November 6, 2022
- High Wind, November 1, 2022
- High Wind, October 22, 2022
- Dense Smoke, September 12, 2022
- Heat, September 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 6, 2022
- Dust Storm, September 3, 2022
- Dust Storm, August 29, 2022
- Dust Storm, August 8, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2022
- High Wind, July 29, 2022
- High Wind, June 23, 2022
- High Wind, June 17, 2022
- High Wind, June 12, 2022
- Heavy Snow, May 8, 2022
- High Wind, May 6, 2022
- High Wind, May 2, 2022
- High Wind, April 18, 2022
- High Wind, April 16, 2022
- High Wind, April 14, 2022
- Heavy Snow, April 11, 2022
- High Wind, April 4, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 9, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2022
- Dust Storm, February 14, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2021
- Avalanche, December 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 12, 2021
- High Wind, October 24, 2021
- High Wind, October 18, 2021
- Strong Wind, September 18, 2021
- Strong Wind, September 9, 2021
- Flood, July 26, 2021
- Flood, July 1, 2021
- Strong Wind, June 24, 2021
- Flood, June 3, 2021
- Winter Weather, April 13, 2021
- Winter Weather, March 11, 2021
- Winter Weather, March 10, 2021
- High Wind, March 8, 2021
- High Wind, March 6, 2021
- High Wind, February 26, 2021
- High Wind, February 19, 2021
- High Wind, February 2, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2021
- High Wind, January 4, 2021
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 27, 2020
- High Wind, December 25, 2020
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 11, 2020
- Wildfire, November 17, 2020
- High Wind, November 13, 2020
- Heavy Snow, November 8, 2020
- Wildfire, October 3, 2020
- Heavy Snow, April 5, 2020
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2020
- High Wind, February 29, 2020
- High Wind, February 8, 2020
- High Wind, February 2, 2020
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2020
- High Wind, January 13, 2020
- High Wind, January 3, 2020
- Heavy Snow, December 22, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2019
- Heavy Snow, November 26, 2019
- Strong Wind, September 16, 2019
- Wildfire, August 24, 2019
- Wildfire, July 13, 2019
- High Wind, May 15, 2019
- High Wind, March 25, 2019
- Winter Weather, March 22, 2019
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 15, 2019
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2019
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2018
- Heavy Snow, November 21, 2018
- Heavy Rain, October 3, 2018
- High Wind, August 4, 2018
- Wildfire, August 1, 2018
- Wildfire, July 27, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2018
- High Wind, June 9, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2018
- Debris Flow, May 21, 2018
- Heavy Rain, May 15, 2018
- Strong Wind, May 12, 2018
- High Wind, April 15, 2018
- High Wind, April 10, 2018
- Debris Flow, April 6, 2018
- Avalanche, March 20, 2018
- Dust Storm, March 13, 2018
- Dust Storm, March 1, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 26, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2018
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2018
- Dust Storm, February 10, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 18, 2018
- High Wind, December 19, 2017
- High Wind, November 26, 2017
- Avalanche, November 15, 2017
- High Wind, November 8, 2017
- High Wind, October 19, 2017
- Tornado, September 13, 2017
- Wildfire, September 1, 2017
- Wildfire, August 29, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2017
- Wildfire, July 3, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 20, 2017
- High Wind, April 6, 2017
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2017
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2017
- High Wind, February 16, 2017
- Flood, February 6, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2017
- Blizzard, January 9, 2017
- Flood, January 7, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2017
- High Wind, December 15, 2016
- High Wind, November 19, 2016
- Wildfire, October 14, 2016
- Wildfire, August 1, 2016
- Wildfire, July 28, 2016
- Heavy Snow, March 28, 2016
- High Wind, March 13, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2016
- High Wind, January 29, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2016
- Heavy Snow, December 21, 2015
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2015
- High Wind, December 3, 2015
- Heavy Snow, November 9, 2015
- Winter Weather, November 2, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2015
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Lyon CountyEvery warning in Lyon 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.