Storm History: City of Williamsburg, Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in City of Williamsburg, 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
- 194
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $62 million
- Episodes
- 185
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter Weather | 37 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 28 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 26 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 22 | 1 | 2 | $63,000 |
| Coastal Flood | 19 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Hail | 16 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 |
| Tornado | 9 | 0 | 0 | $6,000 |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $2,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 4 | 0 | 0 | $61 million |
| High Wind | 3 | 1 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $232,000 |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | $40,000 |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 1 | 1 | $6,000 |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $20,000 |
| Drought | 1 | 0 | 0 | $560,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 18, 2003
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 15, 1999
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Tropical Storm, August 27, 2011
- Tropical Storm, August 4, 2020
- Coastal Flood, October 28, 2012
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2021
- High Wind, March 2, 2018
- Lightning, January 2, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 10, 2011
- High Wind, October 11, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2021
- Coastal Flood, October 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 1996
- High Wind, January 13, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 30, 2010
- Strong Wind, February 19, 2011
- Hail, June 13, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2022
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 episode, newest first
- Coastal Flood, October 28, 2025
- Coastal Flood, October 12, 2025
- Coastal Flood, October 1, 2025
- Coastal Flood, August 21, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2025
- Excessive Heat, June 23, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2025
- Coastal Flood, November 15, 2024
- Coastal Flood, October 1, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2024
- Heavy Rain, July 24, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2024
- Coastal Flood, September 27, 2023
- Coastal Flood, September 23, 2023
- Heavy Rain, September 22, 2023
- Coastal Flood, October 1, 2022
- Coastal Flood, September 30, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2022
- Coastal Flood, May 8, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2022
- Coastal Flood, January 3, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2022
- Coastal Flood, October 29, 2021
- Coastal Flood, October 10, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 1, 2021
- Heavy Rain, June 11, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 30, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2021
- Heavy Rain, December 24, 2020
- Flood, November 12, 2020
- Heavy Rain, November 11, 2020
- Heavy Rain, October 11, 2020
- Heavy Rain, September 17, 2020
- Heavy Rain, September 9, 2020
- Heavy Rain, August 15, 2020
- Tropical Storm, August 4, 2020
- Heavy Rain, August 3, 2020
- Coastal Flood, May 19, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2020
- Heavy Rain, October 20, 2019
- Coastal Flood, October 11, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2018
- High Wind, October 11, 2018
- Heavy Rain, October 11, 2018
- Hail, May 14, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 6, 2018
- Winter Weather, March 21, 2018
- Winter Weather, March 12, 2018
- High Wind, March 2, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2018
- Blizzard, January 3, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 8, 2017
- Tornado, August 7, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2017
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2017
- Coastal Flood, October 8, 2016
- Heavy Rain, October 8, 2016
- Heavy Rain, September 19, 2016
- Tropical Storm, September 2, 2016
- Hail, May 2, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 10, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 5, 2016
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2016
- Heavy Rain, November 9, 2015
- Coastal Flood, October 2, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2015
- Heavy Rain, May 15, 2014
- Winter Weather, March 25, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2014
- Hail, June 13, 2013
- Heavy Rain, May 23, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 24, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 17, 2013
- Flood, October 29, 2012
- Coastal Flood, October 28, 2012
- Heat, July 5, 2012
- Tornado, June 30, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2012
- Tropical Storm, August 27, 2011
- Flood, August 27, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 21, 2011
- Heavy Rain, July 8, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 10, 2011
- Strong Wind, February 19, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 16, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 13, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 30, 2010
- Heavy Rain, September 29, 2010
- Heavy Rain, March 28, 2010
- Winter Weather, March 2, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 9, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2010
- Heavy Rain, November 11, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2009
- Hail, May 9, 2009
- Tornado, April 20, 2009
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2009
- Heavy Rain, December 10, 2008
- Heavy Rain, September 6, 2008
- Hail, June 19, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 8, 2008
- Strong Wind, February 10, 2008
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2008
- Heavy Rain, October 24, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2007
- Heavy Snow, April 7, 2007
- Hail, August 4, 2006
- Winter Weather, December 5, 2005
- Winter Weather, March 8, 2005
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2005
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2005
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2004
- Winter Weather, December 19, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2004
- Hail, March 7, 2004
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, November 10, 2003
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 18, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2003
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2003
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2003
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2003
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2003
- Winter Storm, December 4, 2002
- Hail, June 6, 2002
- Hail, May 7, 2002
- Tornado, May 2, 2002
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2002
- Hail, August 27, 2001
- Hail, May 26, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2001
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2000
- High Wind, January 13, 2000
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 15, 1999
- Flash Flood, September 15, 1999
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 1, 1999
- Hail, August 11, 1999
- Hail, April 23, 1999
- Tornado, March 3, 1999
- Ice Storm, December 23, 1998
- Heavy Rain, February 4, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 27, 1998
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Hail, May 1, 1997
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 12, 1996
- Heat, May 18, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 1996
- Winter Storm, March 7, 1996
- Winter Storm, February 16, 1996
- Winter Storm, February 2, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 19, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 6, 1996
- Lightning, January 2, 1996
- Tornado, May 8, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 4, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 1980
- Tornado, April 27, 1980
- Tornado, July 8, 1977
More
Tornadoes in City of WilliamsburgEvery warning in City of Williamsburg 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.