Florida

Storm History: Saint Lucie County, Florida

193 episodes, 263 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Saint Lucie 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
263
Deaths
11
Injuries
32
Damage
$630 million
Episodes
193

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
Hail9600$73,000
Tornado83927$532 million
Thunderstorm Wind3300$201,000
Funnel Cloud1500
Hurricane (Typhoon)800
Flash Flood700$55,000
Lightning615$20,000
Flood500$87 million
Tropical Storm400$1,000
Heavy Rain200
Wildfire100$10 million
Waterspout100
Rip Current110
High Wind100

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 Lucie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Saint Lucie CountyEvery warning in Saint Lucie 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.