Pennsylvania

Storm History: Elk County, Pennsylvania

281 episodes, 352 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Elk 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
352
Deaths
0
Injuries
37
Damage
$5.9 million
Episodes
281

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 Wind10700$2.2 million
Hail6600$91,000
Tornado47021$3.0 million
Heavy Snow2500$5,000
Winter Storm2500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2100
Flash Flood1600$31,000
High Wind1400$19,000
Ice Storm1100
Flood800$203,000
Winter Weather300
Drought200
Lightning2015$250,000
Cold/Wind Chill100
Strong Wind100$5,000
Frost/Freeze100
Wildfire101
Lake-Effect Snow100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Elk County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Elk CountyEvery warning in Elk 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.