Storm History: Gloucester County, Virginia
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 50 | 0 | 0 | $131,000 |
| Hail | 48 | 0 | 0 | $37,000 |
| Tornado | 48 | 2 | 28 | $8.5 million |
| Winter Weather | 38 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 33 | 0 | 0 | $7,000 |
| Winter Storm | 27 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 27 | 0 | 0 | |
| Coastal Flood | 10 | 0 | 0 | $3.0 million |
| Tropical Storm | 6 | 0 | 1 | $2.1 million |
| Flood | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 3 | 2 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | $40,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 2 | 0 | 0 | $12 million |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Storm Surge/Tide | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Wildfire | 1 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 18, 2003
- Tornado, April 16, 2011
- Coastal Flood, September 1, 2006
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 15, 1999
- Tropical Storm, August 27, 2011
- High Wind, September 1, 2006
- Coastal Flood, October 28, 2012
- Tornado, April 25, 1975
- Tropical Storm, August 4, 2020
- Tornado, July 15, 1996
- Coastal Flood, November 12, 2009
- Tornado, August 4, 2020
- Tornado, March 5, 2025
- Wildfire, March 14, 2006
- Tornado, April 27, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2016
- Tornado, October 11, 2018
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2021
- Coastal Flood, October 2, 2015
- Tornado, September 5, 1979
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
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2026
- Coastal Flood, October 12, 2025
- Hail, July 27, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 27, 2025
- Excessive Heat, June 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2025
- Hail, May 22, 2025
- Tornado, March 5, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 19, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2025
- Coastal Flood, November 15, 2024
- Heavy Rain, September 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2024
- Heavy Rain, July 24, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2024
- Hail, May 27, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 9, 2024
- Heavy Rain, September 22, 2023
- Tornado, June 16, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 9, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2022
- Hail, September 8, 2021
- Hail, August 22, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2021
- Tropical Storm, July 8, 2021
- Heavy Rain, June 11, 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
- 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
- Tornado, August 4, 2020
- Heavy Rain, August 3, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2020
- Heavy Rain, October 20, 2019
- Tropical Storm, September 5, 2019
- Hail, April 26, 2019
- Tornado, April 19, 2019
- Tornado, April 15, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2018
- Tornado, October 11, 2018
- Flood, October 11, 2018
- High Wind, October 11, 2018
- Heavy Rain, October 11, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2018
- Hail, May 14, 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
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2017
- Heavy Rain, October 8, 2016
- Heavy Rain, September 19, 2016
- Tropical Storm, September 2, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2016
- Hail, May 2, 2016
- Frost/Freeze, April 5, 2016
- Winter Weather, March 3, 2016
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2016
- Heavy Rain, November 9, 2015
- Coastal Flood, October 2, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 2015
- Tornado, June 20, 2015
- Winter Weather, March 5, 2015
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2015
- Tornado, May 22, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 10, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2014
- Tornado, February 21, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2014
- Tornado, January 11, 2014
- Heavy Rain, July 22, 2013
- Heavy Rain, July 21, 2013
- Hail, June 13, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 12, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 24, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 17, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 19, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2012
- Tropical Storm, August 27, 2011
- Flood, August 27, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 21, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2011
- Tornado, April 16, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 16, 2010
- Heavy Rain, September 29, 2010
- Hail, August 5, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2010
- Heavy Rain, March 28, 2010
- Winter Weather, March 2, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 9, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2010
- Coastal Flood, December 19, 2009
- Coastal Flood, November 12, 2009
- Heavy Rain, November 11, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2009
- Hail, July 12, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2009
- Tornado, April 20, 2009
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2009
- Heavy Rain, December 10, 2008
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2008
- Hail, August 15, 2008
- Hail, August 2, 2008
- Hail, July 8, 2008
- Tornado, May 31, 2008
- Tornado, April 28, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 8, 2008
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2008
- Heavy Rain, October 24, 2007
- Hail, August 5, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2007
- Hail, June 8, 2007
- Tornado, April 27, 2007
- Heavy Snow, April 7, 2007
- Coastal Flood, November 22, 2006
- Coastal Flood, September 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2006
- High Wind, September 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2006
- Hail, June 8, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 4, 2006
- Wildfire, March 14, 2006
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2006
- Winter Weather, December 5, 2005
- Hail, May 15, 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
- Hail, June 18, 2004
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, November 10, 2003
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 18, 2003
- Tornado, August 26, 2003
- Hail, July 18, 2003
- Tornado, May 8, 2003
- Strong Wind, April 10, 2003
- Storm Surge/Tide, April 10, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 15, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2002
- Hail, May 7, 2002
- Tornado, May 2, 2002
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2002
- Hail, August 27, 2001
- Winter Storm, February 22, 2001
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2000
- Hail, June 18, 2000
- Tornado, May 19, 2000
- Hail, May 10, 2000
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 19, 2000
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 15, 1999
- Flash Flood, September 15, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 1999
- Hail, April 23, 1999
- Hail, April 9, 1999
- Tornado, March 3, 1999
- Ice Storm, December 23, 1998
- Hail, June 13, 1998
- Tornado, April 9, 1998
- Tornado, March 9, 1998
- Coastal Flood, February 4, 1998
- Heavy Rain, February 4, 1998
- Coastal Flood, January 27, 1998
- Heavy Rain, January 27, 1998
- Hail, August 4, 1997
- Hail, May 1, 1997
- Flood, August 27, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 1996
- Flood, August 3, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 1996
- Tornado, July 15, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 1996
- Tornado, July 12, 1996
- Tornado, July 12, 1996
- Heat, May 18, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 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
- Tornado, November 11, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 29, 1993
- Hail, July 18, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 1992
- Tornado, July 11, 1990
- Hail, June 8, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 1990
- Tornado, May 10, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 1989
- Tornado, October 14, 1986
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 1986
- Tornado, May 8, 1984
- Hail, June 16, 1982
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 1980
- Tornado, May 24, 1980
- Tornado, September 5, 1979
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 1976
- Tornado, August 24, 1975
- Tornado, August 14, 1975
- Tornado, April 25, 1975
- Hail, June 23, 1974
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.