New York

Storm History: Montgomery County, New York

649 episodes, 968 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Montgomery 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
968
Deaths
4
Injuries
2
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
649

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 Montgomery 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
Hail13900$1.7 million
Flash Flood13510$3.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind10501$292,000
Winter Storm10400$309,000
Tornado10300$26 million
Flood7600$6.4 million
Winter Weather5020
High Wind3800$379,000
Heat3500
Heavy Snow3000
Strong Wind2900$35,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2500
Cold/Wind Chill2300
Excessive Heat1900
Frost/Freeze1700
Lake-Effect Snow1300
Ice Storm900
Tropical Storm610
Lightning301$21,000
Blizzard300
Drought200
Dust Devil100$200
Heavy Rain100$1.0 million
Wildfire100
Funnel Cloud100

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 Montgomery County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Montgomery CountyEvery warning in Montgomery 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.