Nevada

Storm History: Nye County, Nevada

634 episodes, 1,040 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nye 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
1,040
Deaths
9
Injuries
21
Damage
$8.2 million
Episodes
634

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 Wind39501$790,000
Heavy Snow23606$392,000
Flash Flood15204$5.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind10800$70,000
Excessive Heat5410
Dust Storm3000$151,000
Tornado900$9,000
Dense Fog800
Hail700
Flood600
Lightning511$37,000
Winter Storm516
Debris Flow500$503,000
Strong Wind400$17,000
Wildfire402$1.1 million
Avalanche411$50,000
Heat440
Frost/Freeze100$125,000
Cold/Wind Chill110
Dust Devil100$1,000
Winter Weather100

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 Nye CountyEvery warning in Nye 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.