Florida

Storm History: Gilchrist County, Florida

150 episodes, 185 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gilchrist 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
185
Deaths
0
Injuries
6
Damage
$8.8 million
Episodes
150

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
Hail5800$27,000
Thunderstorm Wind5702$113,000
Tornado2304$2.5 million
Wildfire1000
Tropical Storm500
Heavy Rain500
Lightning500
Drought500
Flash Flood400$500
Flood400$6.1 million
Funnel Cloud400
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Winter Weather100
Winter Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Gilchrist County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Gilchrist CountyEvery warning in Gilchrist 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.