Pennsylvania

Storm History: McKean County, Pennsylvania

405 episodes, 515 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in McKean 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
515
Deaths
5
Injuries
41
Damage
$73 million
Episodes
405

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 Wind15200$299,000
Hail10600$413,000
Tornado57440$46 million
Flash Flood3901$26 million
Heavy Snow3800$5,000
Winter Storm3300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400
High Wind1700$19,000
Ice Storm1500
Lake-Effect Snow800
Winter Weather800
Flood600$200,000
Drought600
Strong Wind200$15,000
Tropical Storm100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Lightning110
Frost/Freeze100

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 McKean County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in McKean CountyEvery warning in McKean 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.