Virginia

Storm History: Wise County, Virginia

279 episodes, 377 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wise 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
377
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$5.2 million
Episodes
279

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 Wind12200$856,000
Heavy Snow10200$416,000
Hail4400$78,000
Flash Flood3710$806,000
Winter Storm2500
Flood1400$1.0 million
Tornado1205$1.9 million
Ice Storm1000
High Wind500$53,000
Winter Weather300
Blizzard200
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Wise County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wise CountyEvery warning in Wise 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.