Virginia

Storm History: City of Bristol, Virginia

146 episodes, 166 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Bristol, 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
166
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
146

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 Snow5500$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$270,000
Winter Storm2200$200,000
Hail1600
Flash Flood800$20,000
High Wind800$803,000
Flood700$90,000
Ice Storm600$20,000
Winter Weather500
Tornado100$3,000
Strong Wind100$3,000
Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 City of Bristol, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in City of BristolEvery warning in City of Bristol 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 2026-10-01.