Ohio

Storm History: Wayne County, Ohio

422 episodes, 596 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wayne 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
596
Deaths
0
Injuries
23
Damage
$112 million
Episodes
422

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
Hail21100$1.8 million
Tornado144011$62 million
Thunderstorm Wind7706$1.5 million
Flash Flood5500$12 million
High Wind3604$6.3 million
Winter Storm2802$9.5 million
Flood900$4.4 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$150,000
Heavy Snow500$430,000
Drought500$10 million
Strong Wind300$60,000
Ice Storm300$4.9 million
Cold/Wind Chill200$35,000
Heavy Rain200$34,000
Lightning200$55,000
Heat200
Blizzard200
Winter Weather100
Funnel Cloud100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Wayne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wayne CountyEvery warning in Wayne 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.