Maryland

Storm History: Worcester County, Maryland

309 episodes, 499 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Worcester County, Maryland: 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
499
Deaths
13
Injuries
1
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
309

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.

Open the live radar over Worcester County

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 Wind9400$312,000
Winter Weather6500
Winter Storm6100$20,000
Hail4800$282,000
Heavy Rain4500$5,000
Flash Flood4000$4,000
Tornado3200$2.0 million
Tropical Storm1800$2.2 million
High Wind1600$2.1 million
Coastal Flood1400$9.0 million
Rip Current13131
Flood1200$500,000
Strong Wind1000$13,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)600$1.1 million
Heavy Snow600$42,000
Heat400
Frost/Freeze400
Blizzard400
Excessive Heat300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Ice Storm200

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 Worcester County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Worcester CountyEvery warning in Worcester County since 1986Every county in Maryland

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.