West Virginia

Storm History: Pleasants County, West Virginia

232 episodes, 250 events since 1957

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.

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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 Flood3000$1.0 million
Heavy Snow2800$62,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$61,000
Hail2310$540,000
Flood1900$1.4 million
Cold/Wind Chill1900
Drought1700
High Wind1500$16,000
Winter Weather1300
Winter Storm1200
Heat1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900$45,000
Tornado803$342,000
Excessive Heat800
Heavy Rain500
Strong Wind500$15,000
Frost/Freeze300
Ice Storm100$3,000

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 Pleasants County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.