Virginia

Storm History: Gloucester County, Virginia

251 episodes, 313 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gloucester 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
313
Deaths
4
Injuries
29
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
251

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.

Open the live radar over Gloucester County

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 Wind5000$131,000
Hail4800$37,000
Tornado48228$8.5 million
Winter Weather3800
Flash Flood3300$7,000
Winter Storm2700$1,000
Heavy Rain2700
Coastal Flood1000$3.0 million
Tropical Storm601$2.1 million
Flood500
High Wind320$1.0 million
Heavy Snow300$1,000
Excessive Heat300
Heat200
Ice Storm200$40,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$12 million
Frost/Freeze200
Storm Surge/Tide100
Strong Wind100$5,000
Wildfire100$50,000
Blizzard100

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 Gloucester County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gloucester CountyEvery warning in Gloucester 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.