Storm History: Wirt County, West Virginia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wirt 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
- 271
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Damage
- $4.8 million
- Episodes
- 248
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 | 42 | 0 | 0 | $1.6 million |
| Heavy Snow | 34 | 0 | 0 | $26,000 |
| Hail | 33 | 0 | 0 | $853,000 |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 19 | 0 | 0 | |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 16 | 0 | 0 | $408,000 |
| Drought | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | $17,000 |
| Flood | 14 | 0 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| Winter Weather | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 10 | 0 | 0 | $210,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 9 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 7 | 0 | 0 | $21,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | $402,000 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Flash Flood, February 18, 2000
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 27, 1998
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 2, 1997
- Tornado, September 16, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2006
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 1, 1997
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Flood, November 22, 2011
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Hail, May 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 4, 1996
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2009
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, April 28, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2015
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Hail, April 14, 2025
- Hail, May 4, 2025
- Hail, May 26, 2019
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- Hail, March 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2019
- Hail, September 18, 1991
- Hail, April 25, 1989
- Flash Flood, April 1, 2026
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2009
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 25, 2020
The strongest tornadoes
Every episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Flash Flood, April 1, 2026
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2026
- Strong Wind, March 13, 2026
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2026
- Strong Wind, February 20, 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
- Heavy Snow, November 10, 2025
- Drought, September 1, 2025
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2025
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2025
- Hail, May 4, 2025
- Hail, April 14, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 3, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 15, 2025
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2025
- Flash Flood, February 6, 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
- Strong Wind, November 20, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Drought, August 1, 2024
- Tornado, May 26, 2024
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- Flash Flood, April 11, 2024
- Tornado, April 2, 2024
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2024
- High Wind, January 12, 2024
- High Wind, April 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 13, 2023
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2022
- Hail, March 23, 2022
- Heavy Snow, March 11, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, January 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2021
- Flood, March 1, 2021
- Flood, February 28, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 10, 2021
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 27, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 25, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 11, 2020
- Flood, December 16, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2019
- Hail, May 29, 2019
- Hail, May 26, 2019
- Flood, February 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2018
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Tornado, July 4, 2016
- Hail, April 28, 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
- Flash Flood, July 7, 2015
- Hail, May 11, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2015
- Flood, March 4, 2015
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 23, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 18, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 16, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2015
- Strong Wind, November 1, 2014
- Tornado, July 8, 2014
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 25, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 27, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2014
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 17, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2013
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Hail, June 29, 2012
- Flood, November 22, 2011
- Heat, July 28, 2011
- Heat, July 20, 2011
- Hail, June 7, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 2011
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2010
- Tornado, September 16, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 5, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 2009
- Hail, June 8, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 2, 2009
- Hail, February 11, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 27, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2008
- Hail, June 1, 2008
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2008
- Winter Weather, December 5, 2007
- Hail, June 5, 2007
- Heavy Snow, February 7, 2007
- High Wind, December 1, 2006
- Flood, September 12, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 7, 2006
- Drought, October 1, 2005
- Drought, September 1, 2005
- Flood, July 25, 2005
- Flash Flood, July 16, 2005
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2004
- Hail, May 21, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, May 4, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, April 28, 2004
- Winter Storm, January 25, 2004
- Frost/Freeze, October 3, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 9, 2003
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Flood, February 22, 2003
- Ice Storm, February 16, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2003
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 4, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 10, 2002
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2002
- Drought, September 1, 2002
- Heavy Rain, August 1, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, May 19, 2002
- Excessive Heat, April 16, 2002
- Flood, March 20, 2002
- High Wind, March 9, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 31, 2002
- Excessive Heat, January 28, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Heat, December 1, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2001
- Hail, May 17, 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
- Heavy Rain, November 1, 2000
- Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 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
- Heavy Snow, January 19, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 9, 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
- Flash Flood, January 21, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 8, 1999
- Heavy Rain, January 1, 1999
- Heat, December 6, 1998
- Heat, September 14, 1998
- Flash Flood, June 27, 1998
- Hail, June 16, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 1998
- Heat, March 26, 1998
- Cold/Wind Chill, March 10, 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, July 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 23, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 7, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, April 1, 1997
- Flood, March 2, 1997
- Flash Flood, March 2, 1997
- Heat, February 21, 1997
- Drought, February 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 16, 1997
- Heat, January 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 13, 1996
- Hail, May 4, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 4, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 23, 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
- Flash Flood, January 24, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Hail, May 10, 1995
- Hail, July 29, 1994
- Hail, May 25, 1994
- Hail, April 15, 1994
- Hail, September 18, 1991
- Tornado, April 9, 1991
- Hail, April 25, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 27, 1983
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 17, 1981
More
Tornadoes in Wirt CountyEvery warning in Wirt 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.