Virginia

Storm History: City of Norton, Virginia

137 episodes, 192 events since 1982

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Norton, 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
192
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.8 million
Episodes
137

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 Snow10000$416,000
Winter Storm2500
Thunderstorm Wind2200$153,000
Ice Storm1000
Flood800$843,000
Flash Flood700$318,000
Hail700$3,000
High Wind500$53,000
Winter Weather300
Tornado200$50,000
Blizzard200
Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in City of Norton, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in City of NortonEvery warning in City of Norton 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.