Virginia

Storm History: Surry County, Virginia

237 episodes, 271 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Surry 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
271
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
237

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 Wind4300$63,000
Hail3900$75,000
Flash Flood3300$1.6 million
Tornado3000$715,000
Heavy Rain3000
Winter Weather3000$15,000
Winter Storm2700$1,000
Coastal Flood1100$610,000
Flood600$100,000
Excessive Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$7.3 million
Frost/Freeze300
Tropical Storm300$1.2 million
Heat200
Ice Storm200$40,000
Heavy Snow200$1,000
High Wind200$30,000
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 Surry County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Surry CountyEvery warning in Surry 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.