Pennsylvania

Storm History: Jefferson County, Pennsylvania

462 episodes, 775 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jefferson 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
775
Deaths
1
Injuries
28
Damage
$112 million
Episodes
462

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
Hail16301$653,000
Thunderstorm Wind14500$1.3 million
Flash Flood12600$104 million
Tornado11417$4.3 million
Flood5800$1.0 million
Winter Storm4500$25,000
High Wind2800$769,000
Winter Weather2803
Heavy Snow22017
Ice Storm1900$48,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1100
Cold/Wind Chill600
Lightning300$11,000
Strong Wind300$2,000
Drought200
Blizzard100
Debris Flow100

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 Jefferson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jefferson CountyEvery warning in Jefferson 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.