Pennsylvania

Storm History: Adams County, Pennsylvania

431 episodes, 528 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Adams County, Pennsylvania: 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
528
Deaths
3
Injuries
1
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
431

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
Thunderstorm Wind14400$8.4 million
Hail13400$917,000
Flash Flood5720$225,000
Tornado4610$2.9 million
Heavy Snow3200$5,000
Winter Storm3200
Flood2400$13,000
High Wind1501$51,000
Drought1100
Ice Storm900$2,000
Heat600
Excessive Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Lightning100$30,000
Tropical Storm100
Lake-Effect Snow100
Winter Weather100
Funnel Cloud100
Strong Wind100$2,000
Dust Devil100

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 Adams County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Adams CountyEvery warning in Adams County since 1986Every county in Pennsylvania

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.