California

Storm History: Kings County, California

336 episodes, 770 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kings County, California: 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
770
Deaths
3
Injuries
16
Damage
$104 million
Episodes
336

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 Kings 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
Dense Fog241315$150,000
Frost/Freeze10600
Drought9000
Excessive Heat7000
Heat6700
Flood3500$1.8 million
Hail3400$7.6 million
Flash Flood3000$709,000
Heavy Rain1600$92 million
Winter Storm1300$338,000
Lightning1300$441,000
Debris Flow1300$22,000
Tornado1101$565,000
High Wind800$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind500$36,000
Funnel Cloud500
Dust Storm500
Heavy Snow400
Avalanche300
Strong Wind100

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 Kings County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kings CountyEvery warning in Kings County since 1986Every county in California

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.