Ohio

Storm History: Williams County, Ohio

226 episodes, 286 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Williams 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
286
Deaths
1
Injuries
26
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
226

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
Hail7502$271,000
Thunderstorm Wind7313$151,000
Tornado33020$28 million
Winter Weather2700
Winter Storm1900
Heavy Snow1600
Flash Flood1300$3.2 million
High Wind1200
Ice Storm700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Flood200$20,000
Blizzard200
Lightning100$150,000
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind101

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 Williams County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Williams CountyEvery warning in Williams 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.