Ohio

Storm History: Greene County, Ohio

501 episodes, 773 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greene 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
773
Deaths
40
Injuries
1,278
Damage
$342 million
Episodes
501

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
Tornado178371,277$322 million
Hail15800$441,000
Flash Flood12100$337,000
Thunderstorm Wind7610$454,000
Flood7500$98,000
Winter Weather5900
Winter Storm5200$525,000
High Wind1800$18 million
Heavy Snow1300$1,000
Ice Storm700
Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill310
Drought200
Excessive Heat200
Strong Wind200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog111$6,000
Frost/Freeze100$540,000

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 Greene County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greene CountyEvery warning in Greene 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.