Storm History: Forest County, Pennsylvania
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Forest 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
- 316
- Deaths
- 8
- Injuries
- 38
- Damage
- $26 million
- Episodes
- 257
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 54 | 0 | 0 | $143,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 43 | 0 | 1 | $261,000 |
| Tornado | 38 | 7 | 30 | $25 million |
| Winter Storm | 33 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Winter Weather | 31 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 28 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 24 | 0 | 0 | $116,000 |
| Ice Storm | 17 | 0 | 0 | $38,000 |
| Flood | 16 | 0 | 0 | $167,000 |
| High Wind | 15 | 0 | 0 | $167,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Blizzard | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Lake-Effect Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 31, 1985
- Tornado, August 19, 2001
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flood, July 26, 2012
- Tornado, May 1, 2017
- Hail, July 13, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2022
- High Wind, December 12, 2000
- Tornado, December 1, 2006
- High Wind, January 30, 2008
- Flood, February 8, 2009
- Hail, July 20, 2021
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2002
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 26, 2007
- Flood, June 17, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 15, 2020
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 episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2026
- Tornado, June 14, 2026
- Tornado, June 6, 2026
- Hail, March 7, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 7, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 24, 2026
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2026
- Winter Weather, January 19, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2025
- Tornado, March 16, 2025
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 20, 2025
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2025
- Winter Storm, December 4, 2024
- Tornado, November 20, 2024
- Hail, October 6, 2024
- Hail, June 18, 2024
- Winter Weather, March 10, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2024
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2024
- Winter Storm, December 18, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 26, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2023
- Hail, April 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 13, 2023
- Winter Weather, March 6, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2023
- High Wind, December 23, 2022
- Ice Storm, December 15, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 15, 2022
- Hail, August 4, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 24, 2022
- Hail, June 22, 2022
- Hail, June 16, 2022
- Hail, May 21, 2022
- Winter Weather, April 18, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Winter Weather, March 9, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 3, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 24, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2021
- Hail, September 13, 2021
- Hail, July 20, 2021
- Hail, July 13, 2021
- Tornado, June 21, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 22, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 15, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 10, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 25, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 3, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 24, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 16, 2020
- Winter Storm, December 1, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 15, 2020
- Winter Storm, November 1, 2020
- Winter Weather, April 17, 2020
- Tornado, April 7, 2020
- Flood, March 20, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 27, 2020
- Debris Flow, February 12, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 4, 2019
- Hail, December 1, 2019
- Hail, August 17, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 4, 2019
- Hail, June 1, 2019
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- High Wind, February 24, 2019
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 30, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2019
- Winter Storm, November 14, 2018
- Tornado, October 2, 2018
- Flood, September 7, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 2018
- Hail, May 15, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 29, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 12, 2018
- Lake-Effect Snow, December 12, 2017
- Tornado, August 22, 2017
- Hail, May 18, 2017
- Tornado, May 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, January 12, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 10, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 13, 2016
- Winter Weather, April 8, 2016
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2015
- Flood, July 7, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 24, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 19, 2015
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 2, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 24, 2014
- Flood, June 17, 2014
- Flood, June 13, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 21, 2014
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Heavy Snow, November 26, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 18, 2013
- Tornado, July 10, 2013
- Flood, June 25, 2013
- Hail, April 10, 2013
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2013
- Ice Storm, December 26, 2012
- Flood, October 29, 2012
- Hail, September 22, 2012
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Flood, July 26, 2012
- Hail, June 28, 2012
- Heavy Snow, April 23, 2012
- High Wind, February 24, 2012
- Hail, November 14, 2011
- Hail, August 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 25, 2011
- Flood, March 5, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 25, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2011
- Blizzard, December 5, 2010
- Blizzard, February 9, 2010
- Ice Storm, December 25, 2009
- Winter Weather, December 13, 2009
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 11, 2009
- High Wind, December 9, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Flood, February 8, 2009
- Ice Storm, January 27, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 17, 2009
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2009
- Heavy Snow, November 20, 2008
- Winter Weather, October 28, 2008
- High Wind, September 14, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2008
- High Wind, January 30, 2008
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2008
- Ice Storm, December 13, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 26, 2007
- Hail, June 27, 2007
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2007
- Ice Storm, February 13, 2007
- Tornado, December 1, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2006
- Heavy Snow, December 15, 2005
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 6, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2005
- Lightning, June 27, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 14, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2005
- Heavy Snow, April 3, 2005
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2005
- Heavy Snow, February 20, 2005
- Heavy Snow, January 22, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 11, 2005
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2004
- Flood, September 17, 2004
- Flood, July 13, 2004
- Hail, May 25, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 20, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 20, 2004
- Heavy Snow, March 16, 2004
- High Wind, March 5, 2004
- Ice Storm, February 5, 2004
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2004
- Heavy Snow, January 14, 2004
- Ice Storm, January 5, 2004
- Heavy Snow, December 20, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 14, 2003
- Flash Flood, November 19, 2003
- High Wind, November 13, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2003
- High Wind, July 21, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 13, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2003
- Ice Storm, April 7, 2003
- Heavy Snow, December 26, 2002
- Ice Storm, December 11, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2002
- Tornado, July 26, 2002
- Winter Storm, March 25, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2002
- High Wind, December 14, 2001
- Tornado, August 19, 2001
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2001
- Tornado, April 9, 2001
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2001
- Flash Flood, February 10, 2001
- Winter Storm, December 13, 2000
- High Wind, December 12, 2000
- Heavy Snow, November 22, 2000
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2000
- High Wind, January 10, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 1999
- Drought, September 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 31, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 9, 1999
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 1999
- High Wind, April 16, 1999
- Heavy Snow, March 6, 1999
- Winter Storm, March 3, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 13, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 8, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 2, 1999
- Heavy Snow, December 17, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 8, 1998
- Ice Storm, November 13, 1997
- Flash Flood, June 25, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 25, 1997
- Ice Storm, March 14, 1997
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 1997
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 1997
- Flash Flood, September 17, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 11, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 19, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 6, 1996
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 1996
- Hail, August 11, 1995
- Tornado, August 28, 1994
- Hail, September 3, 1993
- Hail, July 7, 1991
- Hail, June 15, 1991
- Hail, August 28, 1990
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 1989
- Hail, July 16, 1988
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Forest CountyEvery warning in Forest 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.