Pennsylvania

Storm History: Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

444 episodes, 581 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lebanon 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
581
Deaths
8
Injuries
104
Damage
$28 million
Episodes
444

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
Hail14600$260,000
Thunderstorm Wind14601$596,000
Flash Flood7220$2.3 million
Tornado60111$25 million
Winter Storm3300
Flood3200$4,000
Heavy Snow2800
High Wind1700$75,000
Drought1100
Ice Storm700
Heat600
Excessive Heat600
Winter Weather6471
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Blizzard200$4,000
Lightning2021
Strong Wind210$1,000
Tropical Storm100

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 Lebanon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lebanon CountyEvery warning in Lebanon 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.