West Virginia

Storm History: Mineral County, West Virginia

550 episodes, 839 events since 1988

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mineral 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
839
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.2 million
Episodes
550

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
Winter Weather17400
Winter Storm16600$12,000
Thunderstorm Wind9800$220,000
Dense Fog8700
Frost/Freeze6800
Hail4600$92,000
Flash Flood4100$571,000
High Wind3500$24,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3500
Flood2100$3,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500
Ice Storm1300$15,000
Blizzard1200
Heat800
Tornado701$276,000
Heavy Snow600
Excessive Heat600
Heavy Rain100

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 Mineral County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mineral CountyEvery warning in Mineral 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.