Florida

Storm History: Osceola County, Florida

225 episodes, 297 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Osceola 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
297
Deaths
37
Injuries
175
Damage
$884 million
Episodes
225

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
Hail12901$162,000
Tornado8625171$209 million
Thunderstorm Wind3900$3.6 million
Flash Flood1100$380,000
Funnel Cloud700
Frost/Freeze500$3.9 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)550$245 million
Flood400$4.0 million
Tropical Storm310
High Wind210$398 million
Strong Wind200$19 million
Lightning100$260,000
Dense Fog153$130,000
Heavy Rain100
Excessive Heat100

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 Osceola County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Osceola CountyEvery warning in Osceola 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.