Pennsylvania

Storm History: Beaver County, Pennsylvania

559 episodes, 978 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Beaver 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
978
Deaths
7
Injuries
51
Damage
$89 million
Episodes
559

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
Hail22900$9.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind21401$1.8 million
Flash Flood19500$21 million
Tornado130547$30 million
Flood8601$22 million
Winter Storm3000
High Wind2702$6.0 million
Winter Weather2310
Ice Storm1300$6,000
Heavy Snow800
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Lake-Effect Snow500
Lightning300$23,000
Funnel Cloud200
Drought200
Strong Wind210
Cold/Wind Chill200
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 Beaver County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Beaver CountyEvery warning in Beaver 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.