Washington

Storm History: Snohomish County, Washington

54 episodes, 54 events since 1970

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Snohomish 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
54
Deaths
44
Injuries
13
Damage
$84 million
Episodes
54

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.

Open the live radar over Snohomish County

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
Debris Flow124312$81 million
Lightning911$69,000
Funnel Cloud900
Tornado700$56,000
Thunderstorm Wind500$35,000
Flood500$3.0 million
Hail300$50,000
Heavy Rain300$20,000
Flash Flood100

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 Snohomish County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Snohomish CountyEvery warning in Snohomish 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.