Ohio

Storm History: Summit County, Ohio

560 episodes, 904 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Summit 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
904
Deaths
9
Injuries
57
Damage
$571 million
Episodes
560

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
Hail345010$299 million
Tornado17611$74 million
Flash Flood11150$132 million
Thunderstorm Wind10401$2.4 million
High Wind4622$25 million
Winter Storm4102$14 million
Heavy Snow1700$2.9 million
Flood1600$12 million
Lake-Effect Snow1115$2.5 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$150,000
Lightning500$140,000
Drought500$1.5 million
Strong Wind500$135,000
Winter Weather4036$2.0 million
Cold/Wind Chill200$505,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Heat200
Ice Storm200$2.5 million
Blizzard200

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 Summit County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Summit CountyEvery warning in Summit 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.