Virginia

Storm History: City of Hampton, Virginia

179 episodes, 230 events since 1979

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Hampton, 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
230
Deaths
0
Injuries
15
Damage
$14 million
Episodes
179

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
Hail5400$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind4000$72,000
Tornado32015$9.4 million
Flash Flood3200$1.0 million
Heavy Rain2900
Flood900$2.0 million
Coastal Flood900$70,000
High Wind500$43,000
Tropical Storm500$250,000
Winter Weather400
Winter Storm400$1,000
Waterspout200
Blizzard200
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Snow100$1,000

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 Hampton, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in City of HamptonEvery warning in City of Hampton 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.