Storm History: Ohio County, West Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ohio 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
- 379
- Deaths
- 9
- Injuries
- 6
- Damage
- $54 million
- Episodes
- 278
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 108 | 0 | 1 | $1.0 million |
| Flash Flood | 72 | 9 | 0 | $4.1 million |
| Hail | 62 | 0 | 1 | $255,000 |
| High Wind | 25 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Flood | 24 | 0 | 0 | $48 million |
| Winter Storm | 21 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Winter Weather | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 11 | 0 | 4 | $8,000 |
| Ice Storm | 10 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $7,000 |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Astronomical Low Tide | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flood, January 5, 2005
- Flood, January 19, 1996
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2024
- High Wind, December 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, April 11, 2024
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2010
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 19, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 28, 1998
- High Wind, January 9, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 2010
- Hail, April 9, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2022
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2009
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1985
- Hail, July 8, 1980
- Hail, September 29, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Hail, March 22, 2010
- Hail, July 21, 2009
- Hail, April 9, 2001
- Hail, April 1, 1990
- Hail, July 21, 1983
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, June 22, 2026
- High Wind, March 13, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 29, 2025
- Hail, April 2, 2025
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Drought, August 20, 2024
- Drought, July 16, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2024
- Flash Flood, April 11, 2024
- Flash Flood, April 2, 2024
- Strong Wind, March 19, 2024
- Winter Storm, March 10, 2024
- Winter Weather, February 24, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2024
- Strong Wind, February 15, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2024
- High Wind, January 12, 2024
- High Wind, January 9, 2024
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 1, 2023
- High Wind, March 25, 2023
- High Wind, March 3, 2023
- Winter Weather, February 22, 2023
- High Wind, February 21, 2023
- High Wind, December 23, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 21, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2022
- Hail, July 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 9, 2022
- Strong Wind, February 17, 2022
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2022
- Blizzard, January 16, 2022
- High Wind, December 11, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 31, 2021
- Astronomical Low Tide, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 15, 2020
- Flood, August 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2020
- High Wind, October 31, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2019
- Hail, April 14, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2019
- Flood, September 7, 2018
- Flash Flood, September 6, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2018
- Hail, May 12, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2017
- Hail, August 4, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 28, 2017
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 2017
- Flood, March 1, 2017
- High Wind, February 12, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Flood, December 18, 2016
- Ice Storm, December 17, 2016
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 15, 2016
- Hail, September 29, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2016
- Hail, June 16, 2016
- Flood, May 11, 2016
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2016
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 13, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2015
- Flash Flood, June 5, 2015
- Strong Wind, April 21, 2015
- Hail, April 9, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 24, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2015
- Strong Wind, December 24, 2014
- Winter Weather, December 1, 2014
- Winter Weather, November 22, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2014
- Flood, June 11, 2014
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 22, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 17, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 11, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Hail, May 23, 2013
- Hail, May 21, 2013
- Flood, January 30, 2013
- Blizzard, October 29, 2012
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- High Wind, February 24, 2012
- Ice Storm, January 20, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 14, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2011
- Hail, March 23, 2011
- Ice Storm, February 21, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 16, 2010
- Hail, March 22, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 5, 2010
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Hail, July 21, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 17, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Ice Storm, January 27, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 2009
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Hail, June 21, 2008
- High Wind, January 30, 2008
- High Wind, January 9, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2007
- Flood, March 14, 2007
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2007
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 4, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 14, 2006
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 6, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2005
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 22, 2005
- Flood, January 5, 2005
- Flood, October 18, 2004
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flood, September 8, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 21, 2004
- Flood, February 6, 2004
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 3, 2004
- Flood, January 4, 2004
- Flood, January 3, 2004
- Ice Storm, December 14, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 6, 2003
- Flash Flood, November 19, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 12, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 26, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2003
- Hail, July 7, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 10, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 4, 2003
- High Wind, March 8, 2003
- Flash Flood, February 23, 2003
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 18, 2002
- Hail, May 14, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 5, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2001
- Hail, April 9, 2001
- High Wind, February 25, 2001
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2000
- High Wind, December 12, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2000
- Flash Flood, April 17, 2000
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- High Wind, April 16, 1999
- Hail, April 9, 1999
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 13, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 8, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 2, 1999
- Flash Flood, August 24, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 30, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 28, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 28, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 19, 1998
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 1998
- Hail, May 31, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 9, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 17, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 16, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 18, 1997
- Flash Flood, May 25, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 19, 1997
- Flash Flood, May 19, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 1997
- Hail, May 3, 1997
- High Wind, October 30, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 15, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 25, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 25, 1996
- Flash Flood, February 28, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- Flood, January 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 1995
- Hail, June 21, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 1994
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Ohio CountyEvery warning in Ohio 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.