Pennsylvania

Storm History: Centre County, Pennsylvania

487 episodes, 858 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Centre 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
858
Deaths
4
Injuries
6
Damage
$37 million
Episodes
487

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.

Open the live radar over Centre County

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
Hail22600$590,000
Thunderstorm Wind19410$952,000
Tornado8314$28 million
Heavy Snow6300$18,000
Winter Storm5900
Flash Flood4900$5.7 million
Winter Weather3420$100,000
High Wind3300$59,000
Flood2800$248,000
Ice Storm2600$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2600
Drought1400
Strong Wind700$37,000
Lake-Effect Snow500$90,000
Blizzard200
Heat200
Wildfire200
Excessive Heat200
Lightning102
Tropical Storm100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Centre County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Centre CountyEvery warning in Centre 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.