Oregon

Storm History: Morrow County, Oregon

236 episodes, 348 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morrow 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
348
Deaths
4
Injuries
10
Damage
$4.1 million
Episodes
236

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
Heavy Snow9020$5,000
High Wind5700$224,000
Wildfire3303$1.5 million
Hail2500$1.9 million
Flash Flood2100$198,000
Winter Storm1813$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Excessive Heat1600
Frost/Freeze1300
Thunderstorm Wind900
Dust Storm911$20,000
Heat700
Tornado500$21,000
Strong Wind500$181,000
Ice Storm500
Blizzard500
Dense Fog302
Lightning201$140,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Winter Weather200
Flood200$5,000
Heavy Rain100
Debris Flow100
Funnel Cloud100

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

More

Tornadoes in Morrow CountyEvery warning in Morrow 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.