Florida

Storm History: Nassau County, Florida

460 episodes, 587 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nassau 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
587
Deaths
11
Injuries
15
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
460

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 Wind19000$240,000
Hail13510$73,000
Tornado8615$1.7 million
Flood3500$1.7 million
Wildfire2400
Heavy Rain2100
Coastal Flood1800$100,000
Tropical Storm1700$10 million
Rip Current1495
Drought800
Flash Flood700$275,000
High Surf600
Funnel Cloud600
Winter Storm501$225,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$2.5 million
Lightning404$280,000
Astronomical Low Tide400
Waterspout200

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 Nassau County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nassau CountyEvery warning in Nassau 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.