Pennsylvania

Storm History: Bradford County, Pennsylvania

447 episodes, 756 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bradford 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
756
Deaths
3
Injuries
22
Damage
$157 million
Episodes
447

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
Flash Flood17910$110 million
Thunderstorm Wind17623$1.4 million
Hail156015$259,000
Tornado9801$3.0 million
Heavy Snow4600$797,000
Flood3200$13 million
Winter Storm2200$25,000
High Wind1100$803,000
Winter Weather800$25,000
Cold/Wind Chill500$15,000
Ice Storm500$70,000
Lightning403$102,000
Drought300$20 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300$8,000
Heat300
Strong Wind200$10,000
Excessive Heat100
Blizzard100
Frost/Freeze100$7.5 million

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 Bradford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bradford CountyEvery warning in Bradford 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.