Storm History: Braxton County, West Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Braxton 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
- 415
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 4
- Damage
- $9.3 million
- Episodes
- 343
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 91 | 0 | 1 | $2.9 million |
| Flash Flood | 72 | 0 | 0 | $3.4 million |
| Heavy Snow | 43 | 0 | 0 | $52,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 30 | 0 | 1 | $71,000 |
| Flood | 23 | 0 | 0 | $774,000 |
| Tornado | 21 | 0 | 1 | $419,000 |
| Drought | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 18 | 0 | 1 | $83,000 |
| High Wind | 16 | 0 | 0 | $26,000 |
| Winter Storm | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Strong Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $26,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $500,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Flash Flood, July 31, 1996
- Blizzard, October 29, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Hail, May 18, 1993
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Tornado, June 23, 2016
- Flood, May 10, 2003
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 27, 1998
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2000
- Flood, November 19, 2003
- Winter Weather, December 13, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Flash Flood, March 1, 1997
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2009
- Flash Flood, December 25, 2015
- Flood, February 24, 2019
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 7, 1980
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2015
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Hail, April 14, 2025
- Hail, March 28, 2012
- Flood, April 28, 2002
- Hail, May 19, 2026
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- Hail, May 14, 2010
- Hail, June 16, 2008
- Hail, June 8, 2006
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2026
- Drought, June 1, 2026
- Hail, May 19, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 16, 2026
- Strong Wind, March 13, 2026
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2026
- Strong Wind, February 20, 2026
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2026
- High Wind, December 29, 2025
- High Wind, December 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 8, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 2, 2025
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2025
- Drought, October 1, 2025
- Drought, September 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2025
- Hail, April 29, 2025
- Hail, April 14, 2025
- Hail, March 15, 2025
- Heavy Snow, February 18, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 6, 2025
- Flood, January 31, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Strong Wind, December 29, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 31, 2024
- Drought, August 1, 2024
- Hail, June 26, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2024
- High Wind, January 12, 2024
- High Wind, January 9, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2023
- Tornado, August 7, 2023
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 13, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2022
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 21, 2022
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2021
- Flood, March 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 22, 2020
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 11, 2020
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 13, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 31, 2019
- Tornado, June 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2019
- Hail, April 14, 2019
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, September 23, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 30, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 15, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 26, 2018
- Flood, April 15, 2018
- Heavy Snow, March 21, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2018
- High Wind, November 18, 2017
- Strong Wind, March 8, 2017
- Flash Flood, March 1, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Tornado, June 23, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Strong Wind, March 1, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 25, 2015
- Hail, September 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Hail, June 21, 2015
- Hail, May 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2015
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2015
- Strong Wind, November 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 10, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 25, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 21, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 22, 2013
- Ice Storm, December 8, 2013
- Flood, December 6, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 28, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2013
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2013
- Blizzard, October 29, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2012
- Hail, March 28, 2012
- Heavy Snow, February 10, 2012
- Flood, November 22, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2011
- Heat, July 28, 2011
- Heat, July 20, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 2011
- Hail, April 4, 2011
- Flood, February 28, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 2011
- Winter Weather, December 25, 2010
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2010
- Hail, May 14, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2009
- Flood, May 4, 2009
- Hail, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Hail, June 20, 2008
- Hail, June 16, 2008
- Hail, June 10, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2008
- Hail, June 1, 2008
- Hail, May 11, 2008
- Tornado, March 19, 2008
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2008
- Hail, September 27, 2007
- Hail, August 16, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 16, 2007
- Hail, July 27, 2007
- Hail, July 26, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2007
- Hail, June 19, 2006
- Hail, June 8, 2006
- Hail, May 26, 2006
- Hail, May 14, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 16, 2005
- Drought, October 1, 2005
- Drought, September 1, 2005
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2005
- Flood, July 25, 2005
- Hail, May 13, 2005
- Hail, December 10, 2004
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, May 4, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, April 28, 2004
- Flood, April 12, 2004
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Flood, November 19, 2003
- Frost/Freeze, October 3, 2003
- Flood, September 2, 2003
- Hail, August 4, 2003
- Flood, May 10, 2003
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Flood, February 22, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2003
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2003
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2002
- Drought, September 1, 2002
- Heavy Rain, August 1, 2002
- Hail, June 16, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, May 19, 2002
- Hail, May 8, 2002
- Flood, April 28, 2002
- Flood, April 21, 2002
- Excessive Heat, April 16, 2002
- Flood, March 20, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 31, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 28, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Heat, December 1, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2001
- Hail, June 2, 2001
- Tornado, May 21, 2001
- Hail, May 17, 2001
- Hail, April 10, 2001
- High Wind, March 13, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2001
- High Wind, February 25, 2001
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2001
- High Wind, February 9, 2001
- Excessive Heat, February 9, 2001
- Heavy Rain, January 29, 2001
- Heavy Snow, December 30, 2000
- High Wind, December 11, 2000
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, November 21, 2000
- High Wind, November 9, 2000
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2000
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2000
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2000
- Hail, June 15, 2000
- Hail, June 2, 2000
- Excessive Heat, March 8, 2000
- Excessive Heat, February 26, 2000
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Braxton CountyEvery warning in Braxton 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.