Pennsylvania

Storm History: Crawford County, Pennsylvania

655 episodes, 1,053 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crawford 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
1,053
Deaths
15
Injuries
110
Damage
$397 million
Episodes
655

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
Hail30302$5.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind25901$4.3 million
Tornado1321286$289 million
Flash Flood10010$70 million
Heavy Snow6410$4.9 million
Lake-Effect Snow5300$5.2 million
Winter Storm5005$8.7 million
High Wind3700$3.2 million
Flood2013$4.8 million
Strong Wind1000$300,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$200,000
Drought500
Cold/Wind Chill200$105,000
Lakeshore Flood200$105,000
Blizzard200
Heavy Rain100
Funnel Cloud100
Ice Storm100
Winter Weather1013
Lightning100$5,000
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 Crawford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crawford CountyEvery warning in Crawford 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.