Ohio

Storm History: Seneca County, Ohio

386 episodes, 558 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Seneca 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
558
Deaths
7
Injuries
40
Damage
$76 million
Episodes
386

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
Hail20900$7.2 million
Tornado129634$23 million
Thunderstorm Wind7501$1.4 million
Flash Flood5411$6.4 million
High Wind3100$6.4 million
Winter Storm2502$5.2 million
Flood600$575,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Drought500$18 million
Heavy Snow400$590,000
Strong Wind400$60,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$25,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain100$34,000
Winter Weather102
Ice Storm100$7.1 million

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 Seneca County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Seneca CountyEvery warning in Seneca 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.