Storm History: Lake County, Ohio
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 171 | 0 | 2 | $6.0 million |
| Tornado | 91 | 0 | 40 | $8.8 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 65 | 0 | 0 | $2.5 million |
| Flash Flood | 58 | 1 | 3 | $344 million |
| High Wind | 55 | 0 | 0 | $11 million |
| Heavy Snow | 49 | 0 | 0 | $8.5 million |
| Winter Storm | 45 | 0 | 2 | $17 million |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 28 | 0 | 0 | $4.4 million |
| Flood | 17 | 0 | 0 | $840,000 |
| Waterspout | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | $12 million |
| Strong Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $195,000 |
| Drought | 5 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Winter Weather | 3 | 0 | 49 | $300,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | $270,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | $34,000 |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Coastal Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 | $75,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2006
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, April 29, 2012
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Tornado, July 20, 2013
- Hail, August 28, 1994
- Heavy Snow, November 9, 1996
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- High Wind, October 29, 2012
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, May 20, 2002
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 4, 2000
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Tornado, June 12, 2013
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, July 21, 1983
- Hail, April 14, 1974
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Hail, May 17, 2004
- Hail, May 25, 2002
- Hail, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2023
- Hail, May 21, 2022
- Hail, June 7, 2011
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Hail, September 25, 1994
- Hail, May 9, 1988
- Hail, May 6, 1986
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2024
- Hail, August 18, 2019
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, June 14, 2026
- Hail, June 10, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 9, 2026
- Tornado, March 31, 2026
- Tornado, June 18, 2025
- Hail, May 1, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2025
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 19, 2025
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 3, 2025
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 4, 2024
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 1, 2024
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 29, 2024
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 21, 2024
- Tornado, August 6, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2024
- Hail, February 27, 2024
- High Wind, January 12, 2024
- High Wind, January 9, 2024
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 27, 2023
- Tornado, August 23, 2023
- Flash Flood, August 23, 2023
- Hail, July 26, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2023
- Tornado, April 1, 2023
- Hail, March 31, 2023
- Blizzard, December 23, 2022
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 19, 2022
- Hail, October 17, 2022
- Hail, September 25, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2022
- Hail, May 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Tornado, October 21, 2021
- Hail, August 11, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2021
- Hail, June 29, 2021
- Hail, June 20, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 30, 2020
- Hail, November 15, 2020
- Flash Flood, October 21, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2020
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 19, 2020
- High Wind, January 11, 2020
- High Wind, December 30, 2019
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- High Wind, October 31, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 13, 2019
- Hail, August 18, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 23, 2019
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- Coastal Flood, April 14, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 30, 2019
- Flash Flood, January 23, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2019
- Tornado, January 8, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 20, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 6, 2018
- Hail, July 26, 2018
- Hail, May 4, 2018
- High Wind, April 4, 2018
- Flood, January 23, 2018
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 29, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 24, 2017
- Hail, August 11, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 29, 2017
- High Wind, January 10, 2017
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 14, 2016
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 8, 2016
- Hail, September 10, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 9, 2016
- Winter Storm, April 8, 2016
- Lake-Effect Snow, February 9, 2016
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 17, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 23, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, March 11, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 20, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 15, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 24, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 24, 2014
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 13, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2014
- Tornado, June 23, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2014
- Hail, May 13, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Flood, January 12, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2014
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 1, 2013
- Hail, September 12, 2013
- Tornado, July 20, 2013
- Tornado, July 10, 2013
- Hail, June 25, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2013
- Tornado, June 12, 2013
- Hail, May 10, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 19, 2013
- Winter Storm, February 3, 2013
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2012
- High Wind, October 29, 2012
- Flood, October 29, 2012
- Hail, August 10, 2012
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Hail, May 27, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, April 29, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 27, 2012
- Hail, March 15, 2012
- High Wind, March 2, 2012
- High Wind, February 24, 2012
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 12, 2012
- Hail, August 20, 2011
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Flood, August 15, 2011
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2011
- Hail, June 7, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Hail, May 23, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- High Wind, April 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Flood, April 4, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Winter Storm, March 10, 2011
- Flash Flood, February 28, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 12, 2010
- High Wind, November 17, 2010
- Hail, October 26, 2010
- Hail, September 3, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2010
- Tornado, May 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 1, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 27, 2009
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Strong Wind, October 7, 2009
- Hail, September 28, 2009
- Hail, August 20, 2009
- Hail, August 16, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2009
- Hail, April 24, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Flood, February 8, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 18, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2009
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 16, 2008
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 9, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, August 7, 2008
- Hail, August 6, 2008
- Hail, July 17, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2008
- Hail, June 28, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 21, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 29, 2008
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 19, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 9, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2008
- High Wind, December 23, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2007
- Hail, June 19, 2007
- Tornado, May 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 30, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 24, 2007
- Flood, January 5, 2007
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Hail, October 28, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2006
- Hail, July 20, 2006
- Hail, June 28, 2006
- Hail, June 19, 2006
- Hail, May 14, 2006
- Hail, April 12, 2006
- Strong Wind, March 10, 2006
- High Wind, February 17, 2006
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 6, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2005
- Heavy Snow, November 17, 2005
- High Wind, November 6, 2005
- Hail, November 6, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 22, 2005
- Flood, August 30, 2005
- Tornado, August 20, 2005
- Hail, July 26, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2005
- Hail, June 10, 2005
- Hail, May 13, 2005
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2005
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2005
- Flood, February 8, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Flood, January 1, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2004
- High Wind, December 7, 2004
- High Wind, December 1, 2004
- Strong Wind, November 27, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 9, 2004
- Hail, August 27, 2004
- Hail, July 14, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2004
- Tornado, May 21, 2004
- Hail, May 17, 2004
- Hail, April 19, 2004
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2004
- High Wind, March 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2004
- Heavy Snow, December 17, 2003
- High Wind, November 12, 2003
- Strong Wind, October 14, 2003
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.