Ohio

Storm History: Paulding County, Ohio

245 episodes, 320 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Paulding 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
320
Deaths
2
Injuries
17
Damage
$5.0 million
Episodes
245

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 Wind7300$431,000
Hail6901$199,000
Tornado4907$1.6 million
Winter Weather3600
Winter Storm2510$50,000
High Wind1500$25,000
Heavy Snow1500
Flash Flood1400$1.6 million
Flood800$1.1 million
Ice Storm700$30,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Dense Fog219
Cold/Wind Chill100$20,000
Blizzard100

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 Paulding County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Paulding CountyEvery warning in Paulding 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.