Florida

Storm History: Martin County, Florida

170 episodes, 234 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Martin 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
234
Deaths
8
Injuries
16
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
170

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
Hail8302$1.0 million
Tornado7105$17 million
Thunderstorm Wind2211$154,000
Flash Flood1200$2.3 million
Funnel Cloud1000
Lightning828$560,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)820
Tropical Storm500$251,000
Heavy Rain500
Flood500$240,000
Waterspout200
Rip Current230
Dust Devil100

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 Martin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Martin CountyEvery warning in Martin 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.