Ohio

Storm History: Mercer County, Ohio

391 episodes, 544 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mercer 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
544
Deaths
3
Injuries
58
Damage
$54 million
Episodes
391

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
Tornado106345$40 million
Flash Flood9701$6.3 million
Hail9603$268,000
Thunderstorm Wind6500$334,000
Winter Storm4500$550,000
Winter Weather4500
Flood4201$362,000
High Wind1608$5.0 million
Heavy Snow1100$1,000
Ice Storm700
Heat300
Drought200
Blizzard200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Excessive Heat200
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Frost/Freeze100$540,000
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 Mercer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mercer CountyEvery warning in Mercer 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.