Ohio

Storm History: Guernsey County, Ohio

343 episodes, 510 events since 1968

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Guernsey 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
510
Deaths
0
Injuries
15
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
343

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
Hail14401$605,000
Thunderstorm Wind10003$1.5 million
Flash Flood7000$20 million
Tornado66011$4.1 million
Flood5200$653,000
Winter Storm2000$5,000
Winter Weather1700
High Wind1000$634,000
Ice Storm800$2,000
Drought800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Heavy Snow400
Heavy Rain300
Cold/Wind Chill100
Debris Flow100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Guernsey County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Guernsey CountyEvery warning in Guernsey 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.