New York

Storm History: Monroe County, New York

482 episodes, 760 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Monroe 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
760
Deaths
5
Injuries
47
Damage
$67 million
Episodes
482

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 Monroe 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
Thunderstorm Wind17407$2.0 million
Hail17113$26 million
Flash Flood9601$2.8 million
High Wind55312$7.7 million
Flood5500$8.2 million
Tornado5300$489,000
Winter Storm4000$850,000
Heavy Snow3700$1.8 million
Frost/Freeze2300
Lake-Effect Snow2000$377,000
Lakeshore Flood800$790,000
Coastal Flood700
Ice Storm500$14 million
Drought500
Blizzard400$1.8 million
Lightning302$5,000
Winter Weather3122$500,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Monroe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Monroe CountyEvery warning in Monroe 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.