126
Recorded events
0
Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
$427K
Property damage
Thunderstorm Wind in Box Butte County, Nebraska: 126 recorded events between 1956 and 2025. The strongest on record measured 83. That places the county #1,848 nationally and #46 statewide for this hazard.
Decade by decade
Thunderstorm Wind in Box Butte County, Nebraska: events per decade
Reporting practice changed over time — early decades are undercounted, not calmer.
The busiest decade for thunderstorm wind in Box Butte County is the 2010s, when 44 of the county's 126 recorded events were logged. Comparing decades is useful for spotting active periods, but the earliest years are thin because systematic reporting for this hazard began later.
Within the Box Butte County archive, thunderstorm wind makes up 23.4% of all recorded severe weather across 8 hazard types. Nationally the county sits at #1,848 for this hazard and #46 within Nebraska, putting it in the 41.0 percentile of all U.S. counties.
Seasonality
Events by month
Jun is the peak month for thunderstorm wind in Box Butte County with 46 recorded events, while Jan is the quietest. Seasonality here is a property of the archive as much as the climate: reports cluster where population and spotter networks are densest.
Most recent
Latest recorded events
| Date | Location | Magnitude | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 2025 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 55 | $0 |
| Jul 19, 2024 | NONPAREIL | 61 | $0 |
| Jul 16, 2024 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 53 | $0 |
| Jun 20, 2024 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 61 | $0 |
| Jun 20, 2024 | ALLIANCE | 70 | $0 |
| Jun 30, 2023 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 54 | $0 |
| May 5, 2023 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 51 | $0 |
| Aug 15, 2022 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 56 | $0 |
| Jul 27, 2022 | BEREA | 50 | $0 |
| Jun 13, 2022 | (AIA)ALLIANCE ARPT | 63 | $0 |
Other hazards here
More from Box Butte County
From the record
What the reports say
Written by National Weather Service staff at the time of the event · public domain
Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph and some nickel size hail reported from Hemingford, Nebraska, withan unofficial wind gust of 96 mph at a highway observation platform 5 miles east of Hemingford. Center pivots flipped and about 45 power poles damaged.
Roofs torn off 1 mobile home and 1 apartment complex; at least 2 cars damaged by fallen limbs; power lines downed; 1 camper flipped; trees uprooted; 3' diameter maple tree thrown onto roof of house; 6' wooden fence downed.
Power poles down in western part of town. General Manager of PREMA said the storm took out roughly 40 electrical poles around the area. The downed poles caused roughly 1,000 PREMA electrical services to be stopped across the county.
Quick answers
Frequently asked
How many thunderstorm wind events are on record in Box Butte County, Nebraska?
126 thunderstorm wind events are recorded in Box Butte County between 1956 and 2025, causing 0 direct deaths.
What is the strongest thunderstorm wind recorded in Box Butte County?
The strongest thunderstorm wind on record in Box Butte County measured 83.
Where does the thunderstorm wind data for Box Butte County come from?
All events come from the NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database, the federal public-domain archive of severe weather reports. Dates are UTC, damage is as reported and not inflation-adjusted, and the most recent entries may still be revised.
Cite this page
“Thunderstorm Wind in Box Butte County, Nebraska.” Severe Weather History. severeweatherhistory.com/county/nebraska/box-butte-county/thunderstorm-wind/ · Data: NOAA/NCEI, FEMA, U.S. Census — public domain.