Virginia

Storm History: King and Queen County, Virginia

167 episodes, 197 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in King and Queen 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
197
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.8 million
Episodes
167

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 Wind4800$95,000
Hail4300$63,000
Heavy Rain2400
Tornado2000$786,000
Winter Weather1800$2,000
Winter Storm1200$60,000
Flash Flood900$617,000
Flood700
Heavy Snow300$1,000
High Wind300$55,000
Coastal Flood200
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard200
Ice Storm200$100,000
Excessive Heat200

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 King and Queen County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in King and Queen CountyEvery warning in King and Queen 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.