Pennsylvania

Storm History: Cumberland County, Pennsylvania

447 episodes, 592 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cumberland 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
592
Deaths
8
Injuries
26
Damage
$5.7 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
Hail14705$441,000
Thunderstorm Wind13001$298,000
Flash Flood8120$1.4 million
Tornado6704$1.3 million
Flood4200$19,000
Winter Storm32211
Heavy Snow2900$25,000
High Wind1700$64,000
Drought900
Ice Storm603$50,000
Heat600
Winter Weather601
Excessive Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Strong Wind430$155,000
Lightning311$5,000
Wildfire200$1.9 million
Blizzard100
Tropical Storm100

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 Cumberland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cumberland CountyEvery warning in Cumberland 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.