Florida

Storm History: Holmes County, Florida

247 episodes, 440 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Holmes 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
440
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
247

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 Holmes 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
Tornado11114$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind8002$349,000
Flash Flood7500$10 million
Drought4200
Hail4100$52,000
Flood4100$445,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1700$5.4 million
Tropical Storm1400$265,000
Excessive Heat1000
Winter Weather200
Ice Storm200$500,000
Storm Surge/Tide100$5,000
Winter Storm100$200,000
Cold/Wind Chill100$50,000
Heavy Snow100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Holmes County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Holmes CountyEvery warning in Holmes 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.