Oregon

Storm History: Umatilla County, Oregon

443 episodes, 680 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Umatilla 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
680
Deaths
5
Injuries
15
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
443

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 Snow16720$5,000
Hail11106$179,000
High Wind8400$210,000
Thunderstorm Wind5300$116,000
Flash Flood4300$459,000
Wildfire3603$1.7 million
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Storm2013$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1900
Frost/Freeze1900
Tornado1700$56,000
Flood1510$54 million
Dust Storm1111$20,000
Blizzard1000
Funnel Cloud900
Heat800
Lightning700$4,000
Ice Storm700
Heavy Rain400$3.5 million
Dense Fog402
Strong Wind400$180,000
Winter Weather300$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Debris Flow200
Freezing Fog100$50,000

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

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Umatilla CountyEvery warning in Umatilla 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.