Florida

Storm History: Santa Rosa County, Florida

498 episodes, 678 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Santa Rosa 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
678
Deaths
30
Injuries
184
Damage
$176 million
Episodes
498

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 Wind19505$2.4 million
Tornado15417113$6.5 million
Hail10701$2.6 million
Flash Flood9202$17 million
Lightning75227$1.1 million
Waterspout1600
Rip Current131136
Tropical Storm700
Flood600$90,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$146 million
Funnel Cloud300
Winter Weather200
Heavy Snow200
Coastal Flood100$2,000
Strong 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 Santa Rosa County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Santa Rosa CountyEvery warning in Santa Rosa 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.