Wisconsin

Storm History: Kewaunee County, Wisconsin

251 episodes, 302 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kewaunee 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
302
Deaths
1
Injuries
4
Damage
$2.3 million
Episodes
251

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.

Open the live radar over Kewaunee County

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
Hail5600$3,000
Tornado5503$1.3 million
Winter Storm3700
Heavy Snow3400
Thunderstorm Wind2000$73,000
Flood1700$121,000
Blizzard1400$750,000
Dense Fog1300
Strong Wind1100
High Wind900$14,000
Winter Weather700
Drought700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Flash Flood300
Heat210
Excessive Heat200
Ice Storm100
Heavy Rain100
Lightning101
Lakeshore Flood100$20,000

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 Kewaunee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kewaunee CountyEvery warning in Kewaunee 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.