New York

Storm History: Wayne County, New York

379 episodes, 556 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wayne 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
556
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$70 million
Episodes
379

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
Hail14401$37 million
Thunderstorm Wind11002$1.3 million
Flash Flood6200$3.9 million
Heavy Snow4600$2.0 million
Winter Storm4300$748,000
High Wind3300$2.9 million
Lake-Effect Snow2700$413,000
Tornado2500$3.0 million
Flood1900$7.2 million
Frost/Freeze1900
Lakeshore Flood1000$170,000
Coastal Flood700
Blizzard300$1.3 million
Ice Storm300$10 million
Drought300
Strong Wind100$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Wayne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wayne CountyEvery warning in Wayne 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.