Storm History: Wythe County, Virginia

285 episodes, 406 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wythe 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: 406
Deaths: 5
Injuries: 7
Damage: $41 million
Episodes: 285

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	109	0	2	$1.2 million
Flash Flood	109	1	0	$516,000
Winter Storm	36	2	3	$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind	33	0	0	$141,000
High Wind	28	0	0	$217,000
Drought	23	0	0	$10 million
Heavy Snow	18	0	0	$50,000
Tornado	14	1	1	$28 million
Ice Storm	9	0	0	$13,000
Winter Weather	8	0	0	$50,000
Flood	6	0	0
Cold/Wind Chill	3	0	0	$3,000
Frost/Freeze	2	0	0
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	2	0	0
Avalanche	2	0	0	$69,000
Strong Wind	2	0	0	$3,000
Dense Fog	1	1	1
Lightning	1	0	0	$2,000

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 Wythe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Wythe County Every warning in Wythe County since 1986 Every 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.