Wyoming

Storm History: Carbon County, Wyoming

1,191 episodes, 4,539 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carbon County, Wyoming: 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
4,539
Deaths
14
Injuries
58
Damage
$481,000
Episodes
1,191

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
High Wind2,36201$30,000
Winter Storm85200
Winter Weather43103
Heavy Snow37734
Blizzard180342
Thunderstorm Wind12303$151,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill7300
Hail5800
Tornado4300$300,000
Flash Flood1442
Wildfire600
Cold/Wind Chill500
Dust Storm500
Avalanche421
Lightning322
Flood200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Carbon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carbon CountyEvery warning in Carbon County since 1986Every county in Wyoming

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.