Florida

Storm History: Saint Johns County, Florida

568 episodes, 821 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Johns 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
821
Deaths
16
Injuries
34
Damage
$46 million
Episodes
568

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 Wind21106$1.4 million
Hail17501$383,000
Tornado158020$42 million
Flood9100$311,000
Heavy Rain3200
Flash Flood3100$985,000
Funnel Cloud2800
Lightning2535$998,000
Wildfire2101$12,000
Drought1500
Rip Current14131
Coastal Flood800
Waterspout500
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Tropical Storm200
Storm Surge/Tide100$5,000
High Surf100

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 Saint Johns County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Saint Johns CountyEvery warning in Saint Johns 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.