West Virginia

Storm History: Boone County, West Virginia

364 episodes, 509 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boone County, West 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
509
Deaths
2
Injuries
2
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
364

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
Flash Flood15310$8.2 million
Hail7900$873,000
Thunderstorm Wind4412$250,000
Heavy Snow3500$200,000
Tornado3100$142,000
Flood2200$1.8 million
Drought2100
High Wind1900$64,000
Cold/Wind Chill1800
Winter Storm1600
Heat1100
Winter Weather1100$75,000
Heavy Rain1100$10,000
Strong Wind1000$48,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000$210,000
Excessive Heat900
Wildfire400$25,000
Ice Storm200
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard100$750,000

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 Boone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boone CountyEvery warning in Boone County since 1986Every county in West 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.