Wisconsin

Storm History: Clark County, Wisconsin

380 episodes, 652 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clark 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
652
Deaths
9
Injuries
26
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
380

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
Hail21100$1.3 million
Tornado14529$13 million
Winter Storm6100
Thunderstorm Wind6001$735,000
Flash Flood4000$5.2 million
Flood3430$142,000
Heavy Snow1700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1400
Drought1100$28,000
Winter Weather1023$65,000
Ice Storm802$26,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
High Wind700$147,000
Blizzard600$50,000
Heat600
Funnel Cloud600
Lightning302$81,000
Excessive Heat200
Strong Wind110$500
Dense Fog119$20,000
Frost/Freeze100
Wildfire100$90,000

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 Clark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clark CountyEvery warning in Clark 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.