Wisconsin

Storm History: Brown County, Wisconsin

406 episodes, 609 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown County, Wisconsin: 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
609
Deaths
8
Injuries
24
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
406

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
Hail15600$1.1 million
Tornado13107$7.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind5511$194,000
Winter Storm4400$270,000
Flash Flood4300$593,000
Heavy Snow3000
Cold/Wind Chill1560
Strong Wind1501$6,000
Blizzard1400$406,000
Flood1400$1.6 million
High Wind1300$444,000
Dense Fog1200
Winter Weather10011
Heat1003
Excessive Heat900
Drought800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Funnel Cloud500$150,000
Ice Storm411
Lightning400$41,000
Heavy Rain400$25,000
Lakeshore Flood400$5,000
Dust Devil100$2,000
Seiche100$1,000

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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown County since 1986Every county in Wisconsin

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.