West Virginia

Storm History: Summers County, West Virginia

230 episodes, 291 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Summers 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
291
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$4.5 million
Episodes
230

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
Hail8400$422,000
Thunderstorm Wind5400$541,000
Winter Storm3500$5,000
Heavy Snow3000$300,000
Flash Flood2700$2.5 million
Flood1300$100,000
Drought1200$455,000
High Wind1200$99,000
Winter Weather600
Tornado500$47,000
Ice Storm500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Cold/Wind Chill200$5,000
Blizzard200
Lightning100$25,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Summers County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Summers CountyEvery warning in Summers 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.