Virginia

Storm History: City of Suffolk, Virginia

211 episodes, 299 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Suffolk, 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
299
Deaths
0
Injuries
212
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
211

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
Hail9401$135,000
Thunderstorm Wind8102$175,000
Tornado470208$36 million
Flash Flood3600$12,000
Heavy Rain3100
Flood800$1.4 million
Waterspout100
Lightning101

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 Suffolk, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in City of SuffolkEvery warning in City of Suffolk 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 2026-09-30.