National Weather Service United States Department of Commerce

A Significant Spring Storm Impacting the Central U.S. This Week

A significant late-season winter storm will bring an expanding area of heavy snow, sleet, and freezing rain to the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest. Further south, severe thunderstorms are expected from the southern Plains into the southern Great Lakes. A multi-day excessive rain and flooding event will impact the Ozarks into the Ohio Valley through Saturday. Read More >

Annual Number Days Thunderstorms
1930-2021

Average # = 35.2 Days

Year TOTAL DAYS Year TOTAL  DAYS Year TOTAL
DAYS
 1930 7 inc  1931 24  1932 35
 1933 21  1934 19  1935 33 inc
 1936 -  1937 -  1938 -
 1939 -  1940 -  1941 -
 1942 -  1943 6 inc  1944 35
 1945 25  1946 1 inc  1947 -
 1948 32  1949 59  1950 53
 1951 27  1952 28  1953 25
 1954 37  1955 33  1956 28
 1957 41  1958 36  1959 46
 1960 33  1961 24  1962 34
 1963 43  1964 23  1965 29
 1966 33  1967 32  1968 34
 1969 41  1970 23  1971 27
 1972 46  1973 37  1974 49
 1975 43  1976 47  1977 45
 1978 31  1979 43  1980 26
 1981 35  1982 43  1983 24
 1984 24  1985 52  1986 46
 1987 50  1988 41  1989 33
 1990 51  1991 35  1992 50
 1993 41  1994 34  1995 38
 1996 37  1997 54  1998 21
 1999 28  2000 30  2001 40
 2002 41  2003  31  2004 37
 2005  27   2006  24  2007  34
 2008  22   2009   39  2010  27
 2011 19  2012   24  2013  6
 2014 11  2015    33   2016 33
 2017 37  2018   24   2019  38
 2020 36  2021   39