West Virginia

Storm History: Morgan County, West Virginia

531 episodes, 626 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morgan 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
626
Deaths
2
Injuries
0
Damage
$5.1 million
Episodes
531

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 Storm10300$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind9810$1.0 million
Winter Weather7400
Hail6200$26,000
Dense Fog4700
Flash Flood4610$2.0 million
Flood4100$5,000
Heat3100
Frost/Freeze2800$200,000
High Wind1900$157,000
Strong Wind1300$17,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1300
Drought1100$1.6 million
Ice Storm1000$15,000
Heavy Snow800
Tornado600$31,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Excessive Heat600
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain200

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 Morgan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Morgan CountyEvery warning in Morgan 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.