West Virginia

Storm History: Webster County, West Virginia

220 episodes, 343 events since 1979

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Webster 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
343
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
220

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 Flood7600$2.2 million
Hail6700$1.2 million
Heavy Snow6000$2,000
Winter Weather2300
Tornado2100$9.0 million
Drought2000
Thunderstorm Wind1900$59,000
Flood1900$230,000
High Wind1500$44,000
Winter Storm1000
Strong Wind400$2,000
Heavy Rain301
Blizzard200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Cold/Wind Chill200

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 Webster County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Webster CountyEvery warning in Webster 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.