Florida

Storm History: Hamilton County, Florida

213 episodes, 269 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hamilton 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
269
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$1.1 million
Episodes
213

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 Wind11414$365,000
Hail7300$7,000
Tornado3101$431,000
Drought1200
Wildfire1000
Heavy Rain900
Flood900
Flash Flood400$33,000
Funnel Cloud200
Tropical Storm200$300,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Winter Storm100

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 Hamilton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hamilton CountyEvery warning in Hamilton 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.