Florida

Storm History: Lake County, Florida

296 episodes, 414 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake 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
414
Deaths
38
Injuries
142
Damage
$212 million
Episodes
296

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 Lake 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
Hail16418$827,000
Tornado12327102$168 million
Thunderstorm Wind6143$765,000
Lightning15221$444,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)810$6.3 million
Flash Flood700$2.9 million
Funnel Cloud600
Frost/Freeze600$3.2 million
Tropical Storm600$400,000
Debris Flow400$75,000
Strong Wind320$16 million
Dense Fog218
Excessive Heat200
Cold/Wind Chill100$10,000
High Wind100$12 million
Flood100$300,000
Winter Weather100
Heavy Rain100$10,000
Tropical Depression100
Coastal Flood100$13,000

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 Lake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake 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.