New York

Storm History: Broome County, New York

594 episodes, 1,258 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Broome County, New York: 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
1,258
Deaths
7
Injuries
28
Damage
$844 million
Episodes
594

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.

Open the live radar over Broome County

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
Hail40205$26 million
Thunderstorm Wind27002$1.4 million
Flash Flood22570$727 million
Tornado142021$8.7 million
Flood6300$79 million
Heavy Snow6200$1.1 million
Winter Storm2400$30,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400$20,000
High Wind1400$352,000
Lightning800$52,000
Drought600
Winter Weather500$20,000
Ice Storm500$205,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500$3,000
Heat300
Heavy Rain200$2,000
Strong Wind200$10,000
Excessive Heat200
Lake-Effect Snow200
Blizzard200

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 Broome County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Broome CountyEvery warning in Broome County since 1986Every county in New York

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.