Virginia

Storm History: Alleghany County, Virginia

281 episodes, 331 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Alleghany County, Virginia: 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
331
Deaths
2
Injuries
55
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
281

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.

Open the live radar over Alleghany County

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
Hail7300$128,000
Thunderstorm Wind4700$547,000
Flash Flood4703$11 million
Winter Storm3800$58,000
High Wind3610$173,000
Heavy Snow2000$12,000
Ice Storm1600$10,000
Flood1311$57,000
Drought1200$220,000
Tornado601$19,000
Frost/Freeze600$213,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$2,000
Winter Weather300
Wildfire300$3.4 million
Avalanche3050$97,000
Lightning200$127,000
Tropical Storm100
Blizzard100
Strong Wind100$300

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 Alleghany County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Alleghany CountyEvery warning in Alleghany County since 1986Every county in Virginia

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.