New York

Storm History: Cayuga County, New York

664 episodes, 874 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cayuga 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
874
Deaths
6
Injuries
8
Damage
$51 million
Episodes
664

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
Hail24205$28 million
Thunderstorm Wind14603$1.9 million
Heavy Snow9300$1.5 million
Tornado6510$3.6 million
Winter Storm6100$480,000
Flash Flood5810$7.0 million
Lake-Effect Snow5700$487,000
High Wind5100$1.4 million
Flood1900$1.1 million
Frost/Freeze1700
Cold/Wind Chill1100$20,000
Drought900
Ice Storm840$4.6 million
Coastal Flood700
Lakeshore Flood700$34,000
Lightning500$52,000
Blizzard400$155,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Heat300
Winter Weather200
Strong Wind200$10,000
Heavy Rain100
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100

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 Cayuga County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cayuga CountyEvery warning in Cayuga 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.