New York

Storm History: St. Lawrence County, New York

650 episodes, 1,346 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in St. Lawrence 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
1,346
Deaths
3
Injuries
13
Damage
$66 million
Episodes
650

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
Winter Storm31600$2.2 million
Winter Weather24300$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind21503$2.2 million
Hail18402$37 million
High Wind7600$2.1 million
Strong Wind5000$281,000
Cold/Wind Chill3910
Lake-Effect Snow3600$252,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3600
Flash Flood3100$9.9 million
Heavy Snow2400$120,000
Heat2100$700,000
Tornado1715$883,000
Flood1700$5.7 million
Blizzard1100$40,000
Lightning1003$480,000
Ice Storm810$3.1 million
Frost/Freeze700$250,000
Heavy Rain400
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 St. Lawrence County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in St. Lawrence CountyEvery warning in St. Lawrence 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.