Florida

Storm History: Duval County, Florida

1,041 episodes, 1,879 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Duval County, Florida: 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
1,879
Deaths
20
Injuries
88
Damage
$47 million
Episodes
1,041

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
Thunderstorm Wind515129$16 million
Hail41714$210,000
Tornado265219$16 million
Flood25307$1.4 million
Flash Flood10901$1.6 million
Heavy Rain10800
Lightning47216$942,000
Coastal Flood3700$5,000
Funnel Cloud2800
Rip Current241212
Wildfire1900$103,000
Tropical Storm1800$10 million
Drought1500
Waterspout700
Hurricane (Typhoon)710
Strong Wind500$17,000
Winter Storm200
Astronomical Low Tide100
Winter Weather100
High Surf110

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 Duval County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Duval CountyEvery warning in Duval County since 1986Every county in Florida

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.