Florida

Storm History: Suwannee County, Florida

332 episodes, 463 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Suwannee 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
463
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
332

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 Wind17201$1.2 million
Hail11301$232,000
Tornado10306$4.9 million
Flood1700$5.5 million
Heavy Rain1500
Tropical Storm1000$320,000
Flash Flood900$73,000
Drought700
Wildfire400
Funnel Cloud400
High Wind200$4,000
Coastal Flood200
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Lightning100$250,000
Sleet100
Winter Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Suwannee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Suwannee CountyEvery warning in Suwannee 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.