Virginia

Storm History: King William County, Virginia

191 episodes, 248 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in King William 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
248
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Damage
$4.4 million
Episodes
191

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 King William 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 Wind6600$106,000
Hail5300$146,000
Tornado3110$2.7 million
Heavy Rain2200
Flash Flood1900$1.3 million
Winter Weather1800
Winter Storm1400$62,000
Flood800
Heavy Snow300$1,000
High Wind300$55,000
Coastal Flood200
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard200
Ice Storm200$100,000
Excessive Heat200
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 King William County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in King William CountyEvery warning in King William 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.