Nevada

Storm History: Storey County, Nevada

775 episodes, 1,118 events since 1993

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Storey 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
1,118
Deaths
10
Injuries
56
Damage
$59 million
Episodes
775

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 Wind64616$6.3 million
Heavy Snow24908$193,000
Winter Storm51115$8.5 million
Dust Storm4600$165,000
Strong Wind2300$15,000
Wildfire22325$43 million
Winter Weather2110$5,000
Flash Flood2000$50,000
Flood920$1.4 million
Avalanche600
Debris Flow500$3,000
Dense Fog400$10,000
Hail300
Heat300
Thunderstorm Wind300$2,000
Ice Storm222
Cold/Wind Chill100
Dust Devil100$20,000
Lake-Effect Snow100
Blizzard100
Dense Smoke100

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 Storey CountyEvery warning in Storey 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.