West Virginia

Storm History: Roane County, West Virginia

358 episodes, 432 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Roane 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
432
Deaths
5
Injuries
4
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
358

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 Flood8820$7.5 million
Hail7410$2.2 million
Heavy Snow3500$51,000
Thunderstorm Wind3400$126,000
Flood3411$984,000
Drought2200
Tornado1902$2.6 million
Cold/Wind Chill1900
Winter Weather1800$2,000
High Wind1800$91,000
Winter Storm1700$7,000
Heat1100
Heavy Rain1110
Excessive Heat900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill900$70,000
Strong Wind600$36,000
Ice Storm300$2.0 million
Frost/Freeze300
Northern Lights100
Wildfire101

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 Roane County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Roane CountyEvery warning in Roane 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.