New York

Storm History: Nassau County, New York

461 episodes, 851 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Nassau 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
851
Deaths
38
Injuries
193
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
461

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 Nassau 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 Flood20600$19 million
Hail13807$478,000
Thunderstorm Wind125138$826,000
Tornado6816$4.3 million
Coastal Flood6400
Heavy Snow4500
High Wind44101$4.4 million
Strong Wind3311$1.1 million
Blizzard2391
Flood2200$66,000
Heavy Rain2103
Winter Weather171129
Winter Storm1620
Rip Current886
Excessive Heat700
Tropical Storm420
Lightning301$30,000
Storm Surge/Tide300
High Surf220
Ice Storm100
Heat110

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 Nassau County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Nassau CountyEvery warning in Nassau 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.