Ohio

Storm History: Lake County, Ohio

469 episodes, 620 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake 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
620
Deaths
1
Injuries
96
Damage
$417 million
Episodes
469

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
Hail17102$6.0 million
Tornado91040$8.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind6500$2.5 million
Flash Flood5813$344 million
High Wind5500$11 million
Heavy Snow4900$8.5 million
Winter Storm4502$17 million
Lake-Effect Snow2800$4.4 million
Flood1700$840,000
Waterspout800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$12 million
Strong Wind700$195,000
Drought500$1.0 million
Winter Weather3049$300,000
Cold/Wind Chill200$270,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Ice Storm100$500,000
Coastal Flood100$75,000

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 Lake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake 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.