Virginia

Storm History: Bath County, Virginia

270 episodes, 328 events since 1971

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bath 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
328
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
270

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 Bath 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
Hail6000$206,000
Flash Flood5000$6.8 million
Winter Storm4200$16,000
High Wind4100$348,000
Thunderstorm Wind3200$353,000
Heavy Snow2600$11,000
Ice Storm1800$15,000
Flood1600$113,000
Drought1400$200,000
Tornado900$260,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Cold/Wind Chill300$2,000
Avalanche300$5,000
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard200$500
Tropical Storm100
Strong Wind100$600
Wildfire100$2.2 million
Winter Weather100
Lightning111

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 Bath County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bath CountyEvery warning in Bath 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.