Virginia

Storm History: Dinwiddie County, Virginia

268 episodes, 337 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dinwiddie 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
337
Deaths
5
Injuries
270
Damage
$71 million
Episodes
268

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
Thunderstorm Wind8400$414,000
Hail5900$132,000
Tornado424270$53 million
Flash Flood3610$3.3 million
Winter Weather3500
Winter Storm3300$51,000
Heavy Rain2200
Flood500$5,000
Drought300$6.5 million
Ice Storm300$75,000
Frost/Freeze300
Heat200
High Wind200$8,000
Tropical Storm200$8.2 million
Strong Wind200$2,000
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Snow200$1,000

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 Dinwiddie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dinwiddie CountyEvery warning in Dinwiddie 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.