Florida

Storm History: Manatee County, Florida

420 episodes, 497 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Manatee 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
497
Deaths
17
Injuries
51
Damage
$1.1 billion
Episodes
420

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
Tornado159628$21 million
Thunderstorm Wind10001$2.1 million
Hail9206$3.2 million
Flood4000$4.8 million
Lightning33416$6.4 million
Waterspout1800
Tropical Storm1700$5.4 million
Flash Flood1210$5.3 million
Heavy Rain800$20,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)850$1.0 billion
Storm Surge/Tide200$400,000
Wildfire200$170,000
Funnel Cloud200
Coastal Flood200$10,000
Rip Current110
Frost/Freeze100

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 Manatee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Manatee CountyEvery warning in Manatee 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.