West Virginia

Storm History: Mingo County, West Virginia

328 episodes, 453 events since 1980

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Mingo 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
453
Deaths
2
Injuries
4
Damage
$53 million
Episodes
328

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
Flash Flood10801$22 million
Hail8803$1.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind4800$213,000
Heavy Snow3500$752,000
Flood3200$27 million
Drought2000
Cold/Wind Chill1800$5,000
Winter Storm1600$165,000
High Wind1300$22,000
Tornado1200$190,000
Heat1210
Heavy Rain900
Winter Weather900$10,000
Excessive Heat900
Strong Wind800$17,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$60,000
Wildfire310$3,000
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard100$250,000
Funnel Cloud100
Ice Storm100

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 Mingo County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Mingo CountyEvery warning in Mingo 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.