Storm History: Clark County, Washington
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clark County, Washington: 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
- 92
- Deaths
- 7
- Injuries
- 306
- Damage
- $29 million
- Episodes
- 77
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flood | 16 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Tornado | 15 | 6 | 301 | $26 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 14 | 0 | 5 | $69,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hail | 8 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 8 | 0 | 0 | $1.8 million |
| Funnel Cloud | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 4 | 0 | 0 | $31,000 |
| Winter Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Avalanche | 1 | 1 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, April 5, 1972
- Heavy Rain, December 7, 2015
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Tornado, December 10, 2015
- Flood, May 26, 2011
- Tornado, September 27, 2021
- Flood, October 31, 2015
- Tornado, October 13, 1984
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 12, 2025
- Lightning, August 4, 1999
- Tornado, May 31, 1997
- Lightning, June 21, 1997
- Tornado, May 11, 2000
- Tornado, March 21, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2021
- Hail, April 21, 2004
- Lightning, May 20, 2005
- Flood, February 24, 2025
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 episode, newest first
- Funnel Cloud, June 27, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 12, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 12, 2025
- Flood, February 24, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 30, 2025
- Flood, December 25, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 17, 2024
- Heavy Snow, November 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, October 30, 2024
- Funnel Cloud, October 15, 2024
- Funnel Cloud, September 25, 2024
- Funnel Cloud, August 23, 2024
- Heavy Snow, April 28, 2024
- Frost/Freeze, April 17, 2024
- Avalanche, March 30, 2024
- Flood, December 4, 2023
- Tornado, October 11, 2023
- Funnel Cloud, June 18, 2023
- Flood, November 4, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2021
- Tornado, September 27, 2021
- Funnel Cloud, September 8, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2018
- Flood, May 17, 2018
- Flood, October 21, 2017
- Tornado, October 12, 2017
- Flood, April 1, 2017
- Tornado, March 24, 2017
- Flood, March 15, 2017
- Tornado, December 10, 2015
- Heavy Rain, December 7, 2015
- Flood, October 31, 2015
- Flood, September 28, 2013
- Funnel Cloud, June 19, 2013
- Tornado, March 21, 2013
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Flood, May 26, 2011
- Debris Flow, January 7, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2008
- Hail, May 24, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Flood, December 1, 2007
- Heavy Rain, January 2, 2007
- Heavy Rain, November 2, 2006
- Hail, September 14, 2006
- Heavy Rain, August 20, 2005
- Lightning, May 20, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 13, 2004
- Tornado, September 13, 2004
- Tornado, May 27, 2004
- Hail, May 17, 2004
- Hail, April 21, 2004
- Hail, March 24, 2004
- Heavy Rain, December 12, 2003
- Heavy Rain, March 20, 2003
- Heavy Rain, January 29, 2003
- Heavy Rain, August 22, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2001
- Tornado, May 11, 2000
- Lightning, August 4, 1999
- Hail, October 3, 1998
- Tornado, September 15, 1997
- Lightning, September 10, 1997
- Lightning, June 21, 1997
- Tornado, May 31, 1997
- Tornado, June 29, 1989
- Tornado, October 13, 1984
- Hail, May 1, 1976
- Tornado, April 5, 1972
More
Tornadoes in Clark CountyEvery warning in Clark County since 1986Every county in Washington
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.