Storm History: Pleasants County, West Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pleasants 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
- 250
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 3
- Damage
- $3.5 million
- Episodes
- 232
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flash Flood | 30 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Heavy Snow | 28 | 0 | 0 | $62,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $61,000 |
| Hail | 23 | 1 | 0 | $540,000 |
| Flood | 19 | 0 | 0 | $1.4 million |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 17 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | $16,000 |
| Winter Weather | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Tornado | 8 | 0 | 3 | $342,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 27, 1998
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Tornado, July 28, 1981
- Flood, January 20, 1996
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2013
- Flood, January 5, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2010
- Tornado, January 8, 1998
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2003
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2007
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Hail, June 22, 2008
- Flood, April 28, 2002
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2019
- Hail, March 21, 2011
- Hail, April 14, 2006
- Hail, April 25, 1989
- Flash Flood, April 1, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 26, 1998
- Hail, June 22, 1996
- Hail, June 27, 1989
- Flash Flood, June 2, 1997
- Flood, June 3, 2023
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2021
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Flash Flood, April 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2026
- Strong Wind, March 13, 2026
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2026
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2026
- High Wind, December 29, 2025
- High Wind, December 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, December 13, 2025
- Winter Weather, December 2, 2025
- Drought, October 1, 2025
- Drought, September 1, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 5, 2025
- Strong Wind, December 29, 2024
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Drought, August 1, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2024
- High Wind, January 12, 2024
- Flash Flood, July 27, 2023
- Flood, June 3, 2023
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 13, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 22, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 1, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2019
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Flood, February 6, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2018
- Flood, April 3, 2018
- Winter Weather, February 17, 2018
- Flood, February 16, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2017
- Flash Flood, March 1, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Tornado, June 23, 2016
- High Wind, April 2, 2016
- Strong Wind, March 1, 2016
- Heavy Snow, February 8, 2016
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2016
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2016
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2015
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 23, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2015
- Strong Wind, November 1, 2014
- Tornado, July 27, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2013
- Heavy Snow, March 24, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Winter Weather, January 20, 2012
- Heat, July 28, 2011
- Heat, July 20, 2011
- Hail, July 11, 2011
- Hail, June 7, 2011
- Hail, March 21, 2011
- Flood, March 10, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2009
- Hail, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2008
- Hail, June 22, 2008
- Hail, May 31, 2008
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2008
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2007
- Winter Weather, December 5, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2007
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Hail, August 6, 2006
- Hail, June 29, 2006
- Hail, April 14, 2006
- Drought, October 1, 2005
- Drought, September 1, 2005
- Flood, July 25, 2005
- Flood, January 11, 2005
- Flood, January 5, 2005
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flood, September 8, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, May 4, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, April 28, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 5, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Flood, November 12, 2003
- Frost/Freeze, October 3, 2003
- Hail, August 27, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2003
- Flood, February 22, 2003
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2003
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2002
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2002
- Drought, September 1, 2002
- Heavy Rain, August 1, 2002
- Hail, June 4, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, May 19, 2002
- Flood, April 28, 2002
- Excessive Heat, April 16, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 31, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 28, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Heat, December 1, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2001
- High Wind, March 13, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2001
- High Wind, February 25, 2001
- High Wind, February 9, 2001
- Excessive Heat, February 9, 2001
- High Wind, December 11, 2000
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, November 21, 2000
- High Wind, November 9, 2000
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2000
- Tornado, May 23, 2000
- Excessive Heat, March 8, 2000
- Excessive Heat, February 26, 2000
- Excessive Heat, February 25, 2000
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 28, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 22, 2000
- High Wind, January 11, 2000
- High Wind, January 10, 2000
- Excessive Heat, January 2, 2000
- Heavy Rain, December 13, 1999
- Drought, October 1, 1999
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Drought, July 1, 1999
- Drought, June 1, 1999
- Strong Wind, April 16, 1999
- Heavy Snow, March 14, 1999
- Heavy Snow, March 9, 1999
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 1999
- Winter Weather, February 12, 1999
- Heat, February 11, 1999
- Heat, January 22, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 8, 1999
- Heavy Rain, January 1, 1999
- Heat, December 6, 1998
- Heavy Rain, November 1, 1998
- Heat, September 14, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 27, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 26, 1998
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Heat, March 26, 1998
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 10, 1998
- Tornado, January 8, 1998
- Cold/Wind Chill, November 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 23, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, September 4, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 1997
- Flash Flood, June 2, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 23, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 18, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 7, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, April 1, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 2, 1997
- Heat, February 21, 1997
- Drought, February 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 1997
- Heat, January 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 24, 1996
- Hail, June 22, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 13, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 25, 1996
- Hail, March 25, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 10, 1996
- Heavy Snow, March 7, 1996
- Heat, February 27, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 4, 1996
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 1996
- Flood, January 20, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 24, 1993
- Hail, September 13, 1991
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Tornado, September 14, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 1990
- Hail, June 27, 1989
- Hail, April 25, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 1983
- Tornado, July 28, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 1964
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 1957
More
Tornadoes in Pleasants CountyEvery warning in Pleasants 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.