Pennsylvania

Storm History: Cambria County, Pennsylvania

530 episodes, 683 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cambria 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
683
Deaths
4
Injuries
19
Damage
$4.9 million
Episodes
530

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 Wind21317$762,000
Hail12300$202,000
Tornado7701$3.2 million
Flash Flood5900$399,000
Heavy Snow5200$25,000
Winter Storm3901
High Wind3100$159,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2210
Flood2100$95,000
Ice Storm1600
Winter Weather1201
Drought700
Strong Wind300$12,000
Blizzard200
Lightning215
Cold/Wind Chill210
Tropical Storm100
Lake-Effect Snow104$60,000

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 Cambria County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cambria CountyEvery warning in Cambria 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.