Virginia

Storm History: Middlesex County, Virginia

240 episodes, 277 events since 1976

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Middlesex 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
277
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$44 million
Episodes
240

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 Wind5100$134,000
Winter Weather4100$15,000
Tornado3205$7.2 million
Hail3200$74,000
Winter Storm2800$26,000
Heavy Rain2600
Flash Flood1900$14,000
Coastal Flood1100$9.3 million
Flood700
Tropical Storm600$1.3 million
High Wind400$5.0 million
Heavy Snow300$1,000
Excessive Heat300
Heat200
Drought200$2.0 million
Ice Storm200$50,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$18 million
Frost/Freeze200
Lightning100$200,000
Strong Wind100$5,000
Funnel Cloud100
Blizzard100

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 Middlesex County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Middlesex CountyEvery warning in Middlesex 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.