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Formation
In June 2015, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced that they were introducing the Women's Cricket Super League the following year, comprising six teams, in order to take advantage of the growing popularity of women's cricket, and to bridge the gap between domestic and international cricket by improving standards. Prospective host venues were invited to apply for a team; the ECB aimed to have a good geographical spread, while also catering to existing top players by taking their home addresses into account. In February 2016, the ECB revealed the six teams; the Western Storm were the result of a joint bid by Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, Somerset County Cricket Club and the University of Exeter.

Each team in the competition comprised fifteen players, including; up to four England centrally-contracted players, three overseas players, and up to three England academy players. The rest of the squad was made up of players involved with England's development programme, and talented county players. Teams were selected collaboratively between the ECB and the teams themselves. Player announcements were staggered through April: first three England players; Heather Knight, Anya Shrubsole and Fran Wilson were announced, followed by the overseas players; Stafanie Taylor, Rachel Priest and Lizelle Lee. By the end of the month, the full squad was known.

2016 season
In 2016, each team played each other once during the group stage. In their opening match on 31 July, the Western Storm faced the Lancashire Thunder. The Thunder batted first and were dismissed all out for 83 runs, a total the Storm chased down to win with 27 balls remaining. Knight and Taylor were the Storm's best performers for the Storm with both bat and ball in the match. In their next match, the Loughborough Lightning rallied from 31 for three to score 158 for eight. Knight scored 74 runs in the chase, but received little batting support from her teammates. After Knight was run out, the Storm faltered and lost the game by five runs. Their third match came two days later: the Surrey Stars batted first and scored 161 for six. In their chase, Taylor scored 74 not out, and Lee got 53 to help the Storm to victory. In the penultimate round of matches, the Southern Vipers travelled to Taunton unbeaten. Batting first, the Vipers reached 137 for 3. In their reply, the Western Storm lost Priest early, but two big partnership involving Taylor, who scored 78 not out, helped the Storm to victory with 13 balls remaining. The result of the final match of the round meant that the Storm qualified for finals day, but a victory for the Southern Vipers in their last group match meant that irrespective of the result of the Storm's final match, against the Yorkshire Diamonds, the Storm would have to contest the semi-final. The Diamonds batted first and scored 118 runs. Shrubsole finished the match with five wickets for the Western Storm, taking a four–wicket maiden in the final over of the match. Storm opening batters Taylor and Priest shared a 101-run partnership to help their side to victory by six wickets.

Storm faced the Lightning in the semi-final. The Lightning batted first and scored 124 for seven; Taylor took three wickets, while Shrubsole and Dibble both bowled relatively economically, going for five-runs per over or less. In their chase, Taylor and Knight shared a 57-run partnership, and Knight went on to make a half-century before being dismissed in the final over, with the scores level. Georgia Hennessy struck four runs from her only ball to secure the Storm's place in the final. The final was played later in the day, after the semi-final; the Storm batted first and Taylor and Priest scored an opening partnership of 71, before Arran Brindle's bowling slowed the Storm's scoring, and they eventually reached 140. In response, the Vipers' openers gave them a strong start, and they reached the target with seven balls to spare. Taylor was named as player of the tournament.

2017 season
Western Storm retained a similar squad for the second season; two of three overseas players remained and all three England players. Lee made way for the New Zealander Holly Huddleston, a swing bowler, which Knight said was because they considered their team too batting heavy in 2016, and she hoped that Huddlestone would provide "a bit more firepower and bowling at the death". The first match of the competition was a repeat of the 2016 final; the Storm batted first and were dismissed all out for 70 runs during which they only score three boundaries. In reply, the Vipers eased to the target with more than half their innings remaining. Particularly economical bowling from Taylor helped the Storm to restrict the Lightning to 108 runs in their second match; she took four wickets and conceded five runs over her four overs. Taylor also top-scored in the Storm's run chase to help them to victory by five wickets. In their next match, the Diamonds batted first and scored 160. The Storm's openers then chased down the total without losing a wicket; Knight scored 48* and Priest 106* to secure a ten-wicket win. In the penultimate round against the Stars, a rapid score of 72 from the Storm's former player Lee propelled them to 169 for six. In response, the Storm lost their best batsmen early and never recovered, eventually losing by 52 runs. In their final match, Storm secured a place in the semi-final by chasing down a target of 123 against the Thunder; Priest scored 52 from 26 as they won by five wickets.

Surrey Stars batted first in the semi-final, and were restricted to 100 for seven on a slow pitch; Shrubsole took three wickets, while Claire Nicholas only allowed 14 runs from her four overs. In their response, the Storm struggled against Marizanne Kapp, who took three wickets in four balls for the Stars, which saw the Storm reduced to 17 for four during the fourth over. Taylor built a partnership with Hennessy and then remained 37 not out at the end as the Storm won by three wickets with seven balls remaining. The final was a repeat of the previous year; the Storm faced the Southern Vipers. The Vipers batted first, and scored 145 for five, which ESPNcricinfo suggested was "a challenging total". Priest, opening for the Storm, scored 72 runs from 36 deliveries, including ten fours and three sixes. By the time she got out, Western Storm only needed 52 more runs, which were collected by Taylor and Sophie Luff, helping the Storm to win by seven wickets, and claim their first Super League title. Priest finished as the competition's leading run-scorer, and was named as player of the tournament.

2018 season
For 2018, the competition expand to a 10-match group stage, in which each team played each other twice; once at home and once away. Priest and Taylor both returned as overseas players, and were joined by the Indian batter Smriti Mandhana. Hennessy and Jodie Dibble, who had both played regularly for the Storm, were no longer part of the squad. Due to their success in 2017, and only making minor changes to their squad, they were considered among the favourites again for 2018. In their opening match of the season, Knight scored 97 runs to help the Storm to a seven-wicket win over the Diamonds, but four days later they lost by the same margin in their next game, against Surrey. In a match reduced to six overs per side, Mandhana equalled the fastest women's Twenty20 half century, achieving the feat from 19 deliveries, to propel Westerm Storm to a score of 85; they won the match by 18 runs. In their next match, the Storm bowled Southern Vipers out for 91, before another attacking innings from Mandhana helped to secure a nine-wicket victory for the Storm. Mandhana scored a century against Lancashire Thunder to help the Storm win again, and move to top of the table halfway through the group stage.

In their sixth match, against Yorkshire, Western Storm picked up their fifth win; another half-century from Mandhana propelled them towards a seven-wicket victory. Scores of 76 from Knight, 51* from Taylor and 49 from Mandhana helped the Storm score 185, their highest total, against Lancashire Thunder, before bowling them out for 109 to secure a 76-run win. It proved to be their last win of the season. Their next match was abandoned due to rain, though the points gained from that guaranteed the Storm at least a semi-final place on finals day. They lost their final two group matches, suffering a nine-wicket defeat to the Loughborough Lightning, before the Surrey Stars ensured that they would meet the Storm in the semi-final, by beating them by five wickets. In the semi-final, Nat Sciver scored 72* for the Stars, to help them to 162 for five. In reply the Western Storm, who were without Mandhana, could only manage to scored 153; Wilson top-scored with 58*, meaning that for the only time in their four-year history, they did not reach the final. Mandhana finished as the competition's leading run-scorer, and was named as player of the tournament.

Grounds
The Western Storm played their home matches at three different grounds. The majority were played at Somerset's County Ground in Taunton; they played there nine times. They also played at two grounds in Gloucestershire: five times at the Bristol County Ground, and once at College Ground in Cheltenham. During the 2016 season, all the matches were standalone, but thereafter, a selection were double-headers with men's matches; in which Super League matches were played immediately prior to a men's t20 Blast match at the same ground.

Colours, kit and crest
Throughout their existence, Western Storm used a green and black colour scheme. In their first season, they wore green tops with faint, darker green horizontal banding and a black collar, along with green trousers. The kit was made by TYKA Sports and featured Storm's main sponsor, MailaDoc on the chest. The following year, the club changed to black trousers, and their tops faded vertically from green to black, with black shoulders and collar. Their main sponsor switched from MailaDoc to Taunton School. In 2018, they rebranded, adopting a new logo and a more vibrant colour scheme. While retaining green and black as their base colours, they adopted a brighter shade of green on their top which faded to yellow to offset it, using angled lines to create a non-symmetric design. The kit was made by Shrey Sports, and featured a local solicitors firm, Wollen Michelmore, as the main sponsor. They retained their black trousers. The kit remained unchanged for 2019.

Players
Over the four seasons Western Storm was active, twenty players appeared for the team. A further seven players were selected in the squad but never played for the team. Freya Davies, Heather Knight, Sophie Luff, Rachel Priest and Frank Wilson appeared in all 36 of the team's matches, and due to the fact that Western Storm played more matches than any other team in the competition, played more matches than any other players in the Women's Cricket Super League. Knight was the competition's leading run-scorer, with 1,062 runs, though overseas internationals dominated the team's batting averages and high scores; Deepti Sharma led the team with an average of 53.00, followed by Stafanie Taylor and Smriti Mandhana, while Rachel Priest and Mandhana are the only Western Storm players to have scored centuries; making 106 not out and 102 respectively.

English players dominated the bowling statistics; Davies collected the most wickets, taking 37, while Shrubsole was one of only three players in the competition to take a five-wicket haul, when she took five for 23 against the Yorkshire Diamonds in 2016. Naomi Dattani had the best bowling average amongst the team, 15.00, although amongst those who had bowled at least 250 balls, Taylor's average of 19.69 was the best. Priest led the competition in wicket-keeping dismissals; she took 15 catches and 22 stumpings, and was the only wicket-keeper to average more than one dismissal per innings.

Statistics and records

 * Highest team total: 185/4, v Lancashire Thunder on 9 August, 2018.
 * Lowest team total: 70, v Southern Vipers on 10 August, 2017.