Ohio

Storm History: Huron County, Ohio

429 episodes, 602 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Huron 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
602
Deaths
9
Injuries
134
Damage
$85 million
Episodes
429

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
Hail18504$2.7 million
Tornado1606121$14 million
Thunderstorm Wind8302$1.7 million
Flash Flood6531$31 million
High Wind3800$6.7 million
Winter Storm2802$8.4 million
Flood800$820,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$150,000
Heavy Snow500$200,000
Drought500$15 million
Strong Wind400$55,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$75,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Winter Weather204
Heat200
Blizzard200
Lightning100$100,000
Ice Storm100$4.4 million

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 Huron County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Huron CountyEvery warning in Huron 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.