Pennsylvania

Storm History: Fayette County, Pennsylvania

535 episodes, 990 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fayette 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
990
Deaths
1
Injuries
27
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
535

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 Wind20706$1.9 million
Flash Flood20310$10 million
Tornado183019$11 million
Hail17400$2.7 million
Winter Weather5400$2,000
Winter Storm4800
Flood4500$445,000
Heavy Snow2300
High Wind2102$1.3 million
Ice Storm1000
Strong Wind600$35,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Drought500
Lightning200$22,000
Cold/Wind Chill200
Blizzard100
Wildfire100

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 Fayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fayette CountyEvery warning in Fayette 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.