Pennsylvania

Storm History: Dauphin County, Pennsylvania

482 episodes, 706 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dauphin 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
706
Deaths
8
Injuries
26
Damage
$161 million
Episodes
482

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 Wind21005$2.2 million
Hail16602$414,000
Flash Flood9261$152 million
Tornado86118$6.5 million
Flood3700$65,000
Winter Storm3410
Heavy Snow2800$25,000
High Wind1700$81,000
Ice Storm700
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Drought400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Strong Wind300$36,000
Winter Weather300
Blizzard200
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 Dauphin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dauphin CountyEvery warning in Dauphin 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.