Utah

Storm History: Sanpete County, Utah

80 episodes, 114 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sanpete County, Utah: 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
114
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$4.6 million
Episodes
80

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
Heavy Snow3812$40,000
Flash Flood2100$2.0 million
Winter Storm1900$150,000
Tornado1100$2.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind900$10,000
Hail400
Avalanche300
High Wind200
Excessive Heat200
Dust Storm200
Lightning101
Flood100$100,000
Winter Weather112$150,000

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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Sanpete County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Sanpete CountyEvery warning in Sanpete County since 1986Every county in Utah

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.