Virginia

Storm History: Culpeper County, Virginia

672 episodes, 881 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Culpeper County, 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
881
Deaths
5
Injuries
16
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
672

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
Hail14200$347,000
Thunderstorm Wind12100$780,000
Flash Flood11602$2.1 million
Dense Fog9900
Winter Storm7400$2.1 million
Tornado57013$6.0 million
Flood5540$950,000
Winter Weather5000$10,000
Heat4400
Frost/Freeze3800
Strong Wind1100$13,000
Drought1100$5.2 million
Excessive Heat1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Ice Storm1000$25,000
Heavy Snow700$1,000
High Wind600$525,000
Blizzard400$10,000
Heavy Rain400
Lightning311$25,000
Cold/Wind Chill300$10,000
Tropical Storm200
Storm Surge/Tide100
Freezing Fog100

The deadliest

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 Culpeper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Culpeper CountyEvery warning in Culpeper County 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.