Virginia

Storm History: Carroll County, Virginia

433 episodes, 589 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carroll 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
589
Deaths
6
Injuries
39
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
433

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
Hail14901$1.4 million
Flash Flood12000$2.9 million
High Wind7102$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind5800$640,000
Winter Storm4701$127,000
Tornado3507$3.7 million
Drought2500$10 million
Heavy Snow2320$190,000
Ice Storm1600$43,000
Flood1300$15,000
Strong Wind710$312,000
Dense Fog5325$1.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill300$4,000
Winter Weather300
Frost/Freeze300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300$10,000
Lightning201$41,000
Avalanche200$11,000
Wildfire102
Blizzard100$5,000
Tropical Storm100$5,000
Debris Flow100$500

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 Carroll County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carroll CountyEvery warning in Carroll 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.