Florida

Storm History: Pasco County, Florida

487 episodes, 600 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pasco 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
600
Deaths
6
Injuries
72
Damage
$151 million
Episodes
487

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
Tornado184153$18 million
Thunderstorm Wind15000$2.3 million
Hail13102$384,000
Flood5101$13 million
Lightning25315$761,000
Heavy Rain1400
Tropical Storm1110$89 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)810$18 million
Flash Flood700$5.7 million
Waterspout600
Coastal Flood600$295,000
Storm Surge/Tide200$3.6 million
Frost/Freeze200
Dust Devil100$3,000
Funnel Cloud100
Wildfire101

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 Pasco County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pasco CountyEvery warning in Pasco 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.