West Virginia

Storm History: Brooke County, West Virginia

232 episodes, 291 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brooke 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
291
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
232

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
Thunderstorm Wind9501$1.0 million
Flash Flood5000$910,000
Hail4400$456,000
Winter Storm2300$15,000
Flood2000$23 million
High Wind1300$166,000
Ice Storm1100$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900
Winter Weather800
Heavy Snow700
Tornado500
Drought400
Blizzard200$10,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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.

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Brooke CountyEvery warning in Brooke 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.