Virginia

Storm History: Rockbridge County, Virginia

549 episodes, 694 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Rockbridge 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
694
Deaths
0
Injuries
23
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
549

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
Hail14702$417,000
Flash Flood9300$5.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind8100$1.7 million
Winter Storm7900$8,000
Winter Weather57021$500,000
High Wind4700$552,000
Flood2900$844,000
Heavy Snow2600$15,000
Frost/Freeze2600$845,000
Ice Storm2400$33,000
Tornado2100$228,000
Cold/Wind Chill1600$2,000
Drought1500$320,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Dense Fog1000
Avalanche300$26,000
Strong Wind200$10,000
Blizzard200
Lightning100$20,000
Tropical Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Rockbridge County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Rockbridge CountyEvery warning in Rockbridge 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.