Pennsylvania

Storm History: Bucks County, Pennsylvania

787 episodes, 1,340 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bucks 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
1,340
Deaths
20
Injuries
133
Damage
$145 million
Episodes
787

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 Wind291016$1.8 million
Hail252015$1.9 million
Flash Flood1591215$127 million
Winter Weather120020
Tornado111017$11 million
Winter Storm88030
Dense Fog7100
Flood5400$1.5 million
Lightning33113$1.5 million
Heavy Rain2900
Excessive Heat2707
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2200
Strong Wind1600$29,000
Coastal Flood1500
Heavy Snow1430
High Wind1200$13,000
Heat600
Astronomical Low Tide600
Ice Storm600
Blizzard440
Tropical Storm200$700,000
Funnel Cloud100
Freezing Fog100

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 Bucks County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bucks CountyEvery warning in Bucks 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.