Storm History: Columbia County, Oregon
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Columbia County, Oregon: 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
- 35
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $39 million
- Episodes
- 30
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 10 | 1 | 1 | $39 million |
| Heavy Rain | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 5 | 0 | 1 | $103,000 |
| Debris Flow | 5 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Hail | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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.
Every episode, newest first
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2025
- Frost/Freeze, April 16, 2024
- Debris Flow, January 6, 2022
- Debris Flow, January 10, 2021
- Tornado, November 10, 2020
- Debris Flow, February 10, 2019
- Funnel Cloud, October 2, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2017
- Flood, February 6, 2017
- Flood, November 24, 2016
- Flood, December 9, 2015
- Flood, December 8, 2015
- Flood, December 7, 2015
- Flood, November 19, 2012
- Funnel Cloud, July 17, 2011
- Debris Flow, January 7, 2009
- Flood, December 1, 2007
- Tornado, June 6, 2004
- Heavy Rain, January 27, 2004
- Heavy Rain, December 12, 2003
- Heavy Rain, March 20, 2003
- Heavy Rain, March 7, 2003
- Heavy Rain, January 29, 2003
- Heavy Rain, August 22, 2001
- Tornado, April 28, 2000
- Hail, July 31, 1991
- Tornado, August 16, 1978
- Tornado, November 10, 1965
- Hail, July 15, 1955
More
Tornadoes in Columbia CountyEvery warning in Columbia County since 1986Every county in Oregon
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.