West Virginia

Storm History: Hancock County, West Virginia

238 episodes, 311 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
311
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$41 million
Episodes
238

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 Wind11200$680,000
Hail6200$337,000
Flash Flood4100$1.5 million
Flood2000$38 million
Winter Storm1900$15,000
High Wind1500$221,000
Ice Storm1100$4,000
Winter Weather800
Heavy Snow700$15,000
Tornado501$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Lightning300$23,000
Drought200
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.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Hancock County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.