Utah

Storm History: Tooele County, Utah

356 episodes, 924 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tooele 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
924
Deaths
4
Injuries
8
Damage
$3.4 million
Episodes
356

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
Thunderstorm Wind38704$1.0 million
Flash Flood29610$1.2 million
Hail7900$33,000
Tornado5100$503,000
Heavy Snow2900
Winter Storm2100$25,000
High Wind1700$50,000
Excessive Heat1100
Dust Storm900$12,000
Flood800$525,000
Funnel Cloud400
Debris Flow300
Avalanche310
Wildfire300
Winter Weather200$38,000
Lightning124

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 Tooele County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tooele CountyEvery warning in Tooele 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.