Pennsylvania

Storm History: Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

554 episodes, 908 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lycoming 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
908
Deaths
11
Injuries
26
Damage
$71 million
Episodes
554

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 Wind23124$757,000
Hail20800$1.8 million
Tornado115222$30 million
Flash Flood7460$39 million
Heavy Snow6100$8,000
Winter Storm6000
Flood4400$35,000
High Wind2810$153,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2600
Ice Storm2500
Drought1400
Winter Weather1000
Strong Wind400$64,000
Excessive Heat300
Heat200
Blizzard100
Tropical Storm100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Lycoming County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lycoming CountyEvery warning in Lycoming 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.