Pennsylvania

Storm History: Juniata County, Pennsylvania

219 episodes, 254 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Juniata 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
254
Deaths
4
Injuries
8
Damage
$1.5 million
Episodes
219

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 Wind6100$109,000
Hail4700$149,000
Winter Storm2700
Heavy Snow2608$55,000
Flash Flood2540$535,000
Tornado1600$643,000
High Wind1200$37,000
Flood1100$13,000
Ice Storm900
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Drought400
Heat300
Excessive Heat300
Blizzard200
Tropical Storm100
Strong Wind100$5,000
Winter Weather100

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 Juniata County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Juniata CountyEvery warning in Juniata 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.