Ohio

Storm History: Monroe County, Ohio

233 episodes, 297 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Monroe 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
297
Deaths
2
Injuries
1
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
233

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
Thunderstorm Wind7000$673,000
Hail6000$164,000
Flash Flood5810$18 million
Flood3000$663,000
Tornado1701$817,000
Winter Storm1500$5,000
Winter Weather1400
Heavy Snow800
Drought800
High Wind600$135,000
Ice Storm400$6,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning110
Strong Wind100$10,000
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 Monroe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Monroe CountyEvery warning in Monroe 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.