Pennsylvania

Storm History: Blair County, Pennsylvania

332 episodes, 458 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Blair 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
458
Deaths
4
Injuries
4
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
332

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 Wind11300$444,000
Hail9100$148,000
Flash Flood6510$365,000
Winter Storm3121
Flood2810$33,000
Heavy Snow2800$5,000
Tornado2700$2.6 million
High Wind2200$224,000
Winter Weather1300
Ice Storm1100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Drought600
Strong Wind300$13,000
Lake-Effect Snow300
Blizzard200$10,000
Heat200
Tropical Storm100
Wildfire103$2.0 million
Excessive Heat100

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 Blair County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Blair CountyEvery warning in Blair 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.