Ohio

Storm History: Licking County, Ohio

505 episodes, 753 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Licking 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
753
Deaths
8
Injuries
38
Damage
$158 million
Episodes
505

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
Hail20136$1.9 million
Tornado133126$34 million
Flash Flood10901$102 million
Thunderstorm Wind8004$352,000
Flood7510$183,000
Winter Weather5400
Winter Storm4800$525,000
High Wind1901$19 million
Heavy Snow1300$1,000
Ice Storm600
Heat330
Strong Wind300$5,000
Drought200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$540,000
Heavy Rain100

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 Licking County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Licking CountyEvery warning in Licking 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.