West Virginia

Storm History: Harrison County, West Virginia

454 episodes, 683 events since 1970

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Harrison 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
683
Deaths
4
Injuries
6
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
454

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 Harrison 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
Flash Flood19101$6.7 million
Hail12700$4.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind8612$313,000
Tornado4902$3.9 million
Heavy Snow4510$291,000
Flood4211$732,000
High Wind2000$164,000
Cold/Wind Chill1900$5,000
Winter Storm1700$8,000
Drought1600
Winter Weather1600$76,000
Strong Wind1300$64,000
Heat1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900$250,000
Heavy Rain800
Excessive Heat800
Frost/Freeze300
Ice Storm200
Lightning110$35,000

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 Harrison County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Harrison CountyEvery warning in Harrison 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.