Storm History: Monroe County, West Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Monroe 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
- 271
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $6.2 million
- Episodes
- 215
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 57 | 0 | 0 | $465,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 53 | 0 | 1 | $660,000 |
| Flash Flood | 44 | 0 | 0 | $1.7 million |
| Winter Storm | 31 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 22 | 1 | 1 | $236,000 |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | $107,000 |
| Flood | 14 | 0 | 0 | $80,000 |
| Drought | 12 | 0 | 0 | $2.4 million |
| Ice Storm | 9 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Tornado | 4 | 0 | 1 | $500,000 |
| Winter Weather | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 2 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, October 1, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2020
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- Tornado, July 11, 1976
- Tornado, June 22, 1990
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 1998
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2018
- Flash Flood, November 19, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2010
- Drought, October 1, 1998
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2018
- Hail, May 29, 2019
- Hail, July 8, 2016
- Flood, April 15, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2001
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
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 episode, newest first
- Drought, June 1, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 21, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- High Wind, February 16, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 15, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- High Wind, September 27, 2024
- Drought, August 27, 2024
- Hail, May 22, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2023
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Flood, February 16, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 3, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2021
- Hail, March 18, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 18, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2020
- Hail, August 6, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2020
- High Wind, April 13, 2020
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Flood, February 5, 2020
- High Wind, November 27, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 31, 2019
- Drought, October 1, 2019
- Hail, August 18, 2019
- Hail, May 29, 2019
- Hail, April 8, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Flood, February 20, 2019
- Winter Storm, February 19, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 9, 2018
- Ice Storm, November 14, 2018
- Flash Flood, September 22, 2018
- Hail, August 13, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2018
- Flood, May 5, 2018
- Flood, April 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 24, 2018
- Winter Storm, March 20, 2018
- Flood, February 10, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 23, 2017
- Flash Flood, October 23, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 1, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 2016
- Hail, July 8, 2016
- Hail, June 23, 2016
- Hail, May 2, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 5, 2015
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2015
- Winter Weather, November 26, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2014
- Hail, August 21, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2014
- Winter Weather, December 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2013
- Hail, August 31, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2013
- Winter Weather, April 4, 2013
- Flash Flood, January 30, 2013
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2012
- Winter Storm, October 28, 2012
- Hail, July 27, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2012
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 29, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2011
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2011
- Hail, June 9, 2011
- Hail, May 26, 2011
- Hail, May 12, 2011
- Hail, May 10, 2011
- Flood, April 27, 2011
- Hail, April 8, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Ice Storm, January 21, 2010
- Blizzard, December 18, 2009
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Heavy Snow, December 5, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 9, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2009
- High Wind, January 28, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- Hail, June 22, 2008
- High Wind, February 10, 2008
- Winter Storm, January 17, 2008
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2007
- Drought, October 9, 2007
- Hail, July 31, 2007
- Hail, July 23, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2007
- High Wind, February 14, 2007
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 2007
- Ice Storm, January 21, 2007
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, November 16, 2006
- Frost/Freeze, October 12, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 28, 2006
- Hail, July 19, 2006
- Hail, June 4, 2006
- Hail, May 14, 2006
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 28, 2005
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, November 19, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 2003
- Heavy Snow, March 30, 2003
- Flood, February 15, 2003
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2003
- Winter Storm, December 4, 2002
- Flash Flood, August 18, 2002
- Hail, July 2, 2002
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 2002
- Hail, August 23, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 8, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2001
- Flash Flood, May 22, 2001
- Heavy Snow, March 20, 2001
- Ice Storm, December 13, 2000
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2000
- Ice Storm, February 17, 2000
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2000
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Flash Flood, August 20, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 24, 1999
- Drought, July 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 2, 1999
- Drought, June 1, 1999
- Hail, April 23, 1999
- Heavy Snow, March 15, 1999
- Winter Storm, March 3, 1999
- Ice Storm, December 23, 1998
- Drought, November 1, 1998
- Drought, October 1, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 1998
- Hail, June 2, 1998
- Hail, May 3, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 9, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 6, 1998
- Heavy Snow, January 27, 1998
- Heavy Snow, December 29, 1997
- Heavy Snow, December 27, 1997
- Heavy Snow, December 5, 1997
- Hail, August 17, 1997
- Hail, August 4, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 3, 1997
- Flood, December 1, 1996
- Flood, May 17, 1996
- Winter Storm, March 19, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 8, 1996
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 1996
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 1996
- Heavy Snow, February 1, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 27, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 19, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- High Wind, January 19, 1996
- Flood, January 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 11, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Hail, June 16, 1995
- Tornado, June 22, 1990
- Tornado, July 11, 1976
- Tornado, April 24, 1975
More
Tornadoes in Monroe CountyEvery warning in Monroe 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.