Florida

Storm History: Glades County, Florida

219 episodes, 240 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Glades 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
240
Deaths
5
Injuries
15
Damage
$50 million
Episodes
219

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
Drought5400
Tornado39014$22 million
Hail3600$85,000
Thunderstorm Wind2300$172,000
Frost/Freeze2300
Wildfire1300$60,000
Flood900$10,000
Funnel Cloud800
Hurricane (Typhoon)820$27 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700$1.0 million
Tropical Storm500
High Wind320$55,000
Flash Flood300$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Waterspout200
Lightning211$20,000
Storm Surge/Tide200
Heat100

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 Glades County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Glades CountyEvery warning in Glades 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.