Virginia

Storm History: Isle of Wight County, Virginia

202 episodes, 292 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Isle of Wight 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
292
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
202

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 Wind8001$216,000
Hail7700$134,000
Tornado4700$1.1 million
Flash Flood4400$6.1 million
Heavy Rain3100
Flood900$2.7 million
Lightning300$23,000
Waterspout100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Isle of Wight County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Isle of Wight CountyEvery warning in Isle of Wight 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.