Storm History: Henry County, Virginia

455 episodes, 777 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Henry 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: 777
Deaths: 6
Injuries: 33
Damage: $138 million
Episodes: 455

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 Henry 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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	239	1	0	$3.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind	195	0	3	$2.3 million
Flash Flood	151	2	0	$16 million
Tornado	51	0	17	$105 million
Winter Storm	33	3	0	$275,000
Drought	22	0	0	$10 million
High Wind	19	0	1	$441,000
Heavy Snow	18	0	0	$2,000
Flood	18	0	0	$49,000
Strong Wind	9	0	0	$79,000
Ice Storm	6	0	0	$64,000
Frost/Freeze	6	0	0	$243,000
Cold/Wind Chill	2	0	0	$20,000
Tropical Storm	2	0	0	$25,000
Winter Weather	1	0	0
Blizzard	1	0	0	$20,000
Heat	1	0	6
Dust Devil	1	0	6	$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0	$20,000
Avalanche	1	0	0	$4,000

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 Henry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Henry County Every warning in Henry County since 1986 Every 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.