NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 19169MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

STORY · IA

Tornado history

NOAA records coded as Tornado in Story during the ten complete years from 2016 through 2025.

Reports10NOAA county-coded rows
Population context10.0per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 100,466
Injuries2direct + indirect fields
Fatalities0direct + indirect fields
Not a probability

10 reports in ten years does not mean a 1.0-event annual forecast. Reporting units, event segmentation, coverage, and local exposure all affect the count.

01 / YEAR-BY-YEAR

How the record changed

20173
20184
20221
20241
20251
03 / RECORDED CONSEQUENCES

Impact fields on these rows

Damage estimates are nominal values as filed by the reporting source and retained by NOAA.

Property damage$3.3Mnot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$8Knot inflation-adjusted
First report year2,017within selected window
Latest report year2,025within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2025-07-19NOAA 1,286,694Emergency ManagerEFU$0
2024-05-21NOAA 1,170,190NWS Storm SurveyEF2$3.2M
2022-04-23NOAA 1,033,744NWS Storm SurveyEF0$1K
2018-07-19NOAA 766,067Storm ChaserEF0$800
2018-07-19NOAA 766,065Storm ChaserEF0$0
2018-07-19NOAA 766,062Social MediaEF0$500
2018-05-29NOAA 754,663PublicEF0$100
2017-08-21NOAA 726,661NWS Storm SurveyEF0$3K
READING THE RECORD

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