Ohio

Storm History: Brown County, Ohio

427 episodes, 607 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown County, Ohio: 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
607
Deaths
5
Injuries
9
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
427

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
Tornado12416$12 million
Flash Flood11943$6.4 million
Hail11000$339,000
Winter Storm5700$500,000
Thunderstorm Wind5500$265,000
Flood5000$2.8 million
Winter Weather4700
Heavy Snow1400
High Wind1100$5.2 million
Ice Storm600
Excessive Heat400
Heat300
Drought200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$540,000
Heavy Rain100

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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown County since 1986Every county in Ohio

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.