New York

Storm History: Oneida County, New York

743 episodes, 1,610 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Oneida 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
1,610
Deaths
10
Injuries
41
Damage
$201 million
Episodes
743

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 Oneida 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
Hail44113$31 million
Thunderstorm Wind23308$2.6 million
Heavy Snow20602$3.5 million
Tornado20355$32 million
Flash Flood15414$71 million
Lake-Effect Snow11701$2.6 million
Winter Storm5600
High Wind4401$1.1 million
Flood4000$153,000
Cold/Wind Chill2900$80,000
Ice Storm2200$7.0 million
Lightning1819$512,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100$10,000
Winter Weather1028$23,000
Drought600$50 million
Heat600
Blizzard600
Strong Wind400$20,000
Heavy Rain200
Excessive Heat200

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 Oneida County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Oneida CountyEvery warning in Oneida 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.