Ohio

Storm History: Morrow County, Ohio

292 episodes, 370 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morrow 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
370
Deaths
4
Injuries
96
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
292

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.

Open the live radar over Morrow County

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
Hail12400$2.7 million
Tornado78493$34 million
Thunderstorm Wind4300$791,000
Flash Flood3000$4.8 million
High Wind2600$4.1 million
Winter Storm2202$6.4 million
Flood1500$515,000
Drought500$5.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heavy Snow400$170,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$25,000
Strong Wind300$35,000
Ice Storm300$4.9 million
Lightning201$20,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain100$34,000
Winter Weather100
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 Morrow County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Morrow CountyEvery warning in Morrow 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.