New York

Storm History: Kings County, New York

306 episodes, 379 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kings County, New York: 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
379
Deaths
70
Injuries
39
Damage
$80 million
Episodes
306

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 Kings 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
Flash Flood7641$62 million
Thunderstorm Wind4501$144,000
High Wind3334$1.7 million
Heavy Snow3300
Hail3223$115,000
Tornado30018$8.8 million
Strong Wind1913$618,000
Coastal Flood1450
Flood1400
Heavy Rain1400
Blizzard1310
Winter Storm1300
Drought800
Winter Weather606
Heat5290
Rip Current570
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill440
Lightning402$23,000
Tropical Storm301$7.1 million
Excessive Heat3130
Cold/Wind Chill210
Ice Storm100
Storm Surge/Tide100
Dense Fog100

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 Kings County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kings CountyEvery warning in Kings County since 1986Every county in New York

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.