Storm History: Portage County, Ohio
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Portage 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
- 664
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 10
- Damage
- $318 million
- Episodes
- 461
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 241 | 0 | 0 | $7.3 million |
| Tornado | 127 | 0 | 2 | $260 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 94 | 0 | 0 | $2.2 million |
| Flash Flood | 58 | 0 | 0 | $26 million |
| Winter Storm | 40 | 0 | 2 | $6.6 million |
| High Wind | 35 | 0 | 4 | $6.7 million |
| Heavy Snow | 13 | 0 | 0 | $1.7 million |
| Flood | 11 | 0 | 0 | $907,000 |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 9 | 0 | 0 | $710,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Lightning | 7 | 0 | 2 | $175,000 |
| Drought | 5 | 0 | 0 | $4.0 million |
| Strong Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $95,000 |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $600,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | $65,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | $34,000 |
| Winter Weather | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 31, 1985
- Flash Flood, July 21, 2003
- Hail, June 8, 2007
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Tornado, November 5, 2017
- Tornado, July 10, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2004
- Tornado, June 14, 2000
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Heavy Snow, November 9, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2006
- Tornado, May 21, 2004
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2003
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 8, 2007
- Hail, July 21, 1983
- Hail, April 14, 1974
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Hail, March 28, 2020
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Hail, July 26, 2008
- Hail, November 10, 2002
- Hail, September 2, 1993
- Hail, August 19, 1968
- Hail, May 12, 1956
- Hail, April 13, 2026
- Flash Flood, September 7, 2020
- Hail, May 10, 2011
- Hail, June 7, 2011
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, May 31, 1985
- Tornado, June 3, 1973
- Tornado, May 2, 1983
- Tornado, July 12, 1992
- Tornado, June 25, 1968
- Tornado, August 13, 1975
- Tornado, April 8, 1980
- Tornado, March 28, 1985
- Tornado, March 10, 1986
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, June 22, 1990
- Tornado, September 20, 2000
- Tornado, November 12, 2003
- Tornado, June 21, 2006
- Tornado, September 16, 2010
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, April 13, 2026
- Tornado, March 31, 2026
- Hail, March 22, 2026
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 27, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2025
- Tornado, June 18, 2025
- Hail, May 16, 2025
- Hail, May 1, 2025
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 3, 2025
- High Wind, December 29, 2024
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 4, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 16, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2024
- Tornado, August 6, 2024
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2024
- Tornado, May 11, 2024
- Tornado, April 17, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2024
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2023
- Tornado, August 23, 2023
- Tornado, August 12, 2023
- Hail, July 26, 2023
- Tornado, April 1, 2023
- Blizzard, December 23, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2022
- Hail, June 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, February 17, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 11, 2021
- Tornado, October 21, 2021
- Hail, August 11, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2021
- Hail, June 29, 2021
- Hail, June 20, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 26, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2020
- Winter Weather, November 30, 2020
- Hail, November 15, 2020
- Flash Flood, September 7, 2020
- Hail, August 27, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2020
- Tornado, April 7, 2020
- Hail, March 28, 2020
- High Wind, January 11, 2020
- High Wind, December 30, 2019
- Lake-Effect Snow, November 11, 2019
- Hail, August 18, 2019
- Hail, August 17, 2019
- Tornado, August 6, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2019
- Tornado, June 16, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2019
- Tornado, June 5, 2019
- Hail, May 28, 2019
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2018
- Hail, May 22, 2018
- Hail, May 4, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 27, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Tornado, November 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2017
- Hail, June 4, 2017
- Hail, April 19, 2017
- Winter Storm, March 13, 2017
- Flood, January 12, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2016
- Hail, June 16, 2016
- Hail, June 5, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 20, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 15, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 24, 2014
- Tornado, September 10, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2014
- Hail, June 18, 2014
- Hail, May 13, 2014
- Tornado, May 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Tornado, November 17, 2013
- Tornado, July 10, 2013
- Hail, June 29, 2013
- Hail, June 25, 2013
- Tornado, June 12, 2013
- Hail, April 10, 2013
- Ice Storm, March 18, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2012
- High Wind, October 29, 2012
- Hail, September 6, 2012
- Hail, July 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2012
- Hail, July 5, 2012
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Hail, May 29, 2012
- Hail, May 28, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, April 29, 2012
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 27, 2012
- Hail, March 15, 2012
- High Wind, February 24, 2012
- Lake-Effect Snow, January 1, 2012
- Hail, November 14, 2011
- Hail, September 13, 2011
- Flood, September 7, 2011
- Tornado, August 24, 2011
- Hail, August 18, 2011
- Hail, August 9, 2011
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2011
- Hail, July 18, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 11, 2011
- Hail, June 21, 2011
- Hail, June 7, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Flood, May 24, 2011
- Hail, May 23, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- Hail, May 10, 2011
- High Wind, April 28, 2011
- Tornado, April 19, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 12, 2010
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 4, 2010
- Tornado, September 16, 2010
- Hail, September 7, 2010
- Hail, July 28, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2010
- Hail, June 23, 2010
- Hail, June 2, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2010
- Tornado, May 7, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Hail, August 10, 2009
- Hail, June 25, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2009
- Hail, March 7, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, August 7, 2008
- Hail, July 26, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2008
- Hail, June 23, 2008
- Hail, June 21, 2008
- Hail, June 13, 2008
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 29, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 9, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2008
- High Wind, December 23, 2007
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2007
- Tornado, August 9, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2007
- Hail, August 3, 2007
- Hail, July 27, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2007
- Hail, June 21, 2007
- Hail, June 19, 2007
- Hail, June 8, 2007
- Hail, May 25, 2007
- Tornado, May 1, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, April 5, 2007
- Ice Storm, March 15, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2007
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 7, 2006
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Hail, October 28, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2006
- Hail, July 10, 2006
- Tornado, July 4, 2006
- Hail, July 2, 2006
- Tornado, June 21, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2006
- Hail, May 17, 2006
- Hail, April 12, 2006
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Strong Wind, March 10, 2006
- High Wind, February 17, 2006
- High Wind, November 6, 2005
- Flood, August 30, 2005
- Flood, August 5, 2005
- Hail, July 26, 2005
- Hail, June 30, 2005
- Hail, June 14, 2005
- Hail, May 13, 2005
- Hail, April 20, 2005
- Winter Storm, April 2, 2005
- Winter Storm, March 1, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Flood, January 1, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 19, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2004
- High Wind, December 7, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 9, 2004
- Hail, June 24, 2004
- Hail, June 14, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2004
- Tornado, May 21, 2004
- Flood, May 18, 2004
- Hail, April 19, 2004
- Hail, April 17, 2004
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2004
- High Wind, March 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2003
- High Wind, November 12, 2003
- Tornado, November 12, 2003
- Hail, September 26, 2003
- Flood, August 27, 2003
- Flood, August 27, 2003
- Hail, August 26, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2003
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2003
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Portage CountyEvery warning in Portage 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.