Pennsylvania

Storm History: Armstrong County, Pennsylvania

430 episodes, 639 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Armstrong 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
639
Deaths
1
Injuries
129
Damage
$269 million
Episodes
430

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
Hail13401$3.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind13300$1.3 million
Flash Flood11501$1.5 million
Tornado990124$254 million
Flood4001$7.9 million
Winter Storm3400$10,000
Winter Weather2500
High Wind1900$694,000
Heavy Snow1500
Ice Storm1300$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Drought200
Heavy Rain112
Lightning100$10,000
Blizzard100

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 Armstrong County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Armstrong CountyEvery warning in Armstrong 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.