Pennsylvania

Storm History: Potter County, Pennsylvania

319 episodes, 398 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Potter 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
398
Deaths
1
Injuries
9
Damage
$502 million
Episodes
319

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 Wind10103$151,000
Hail5600$55,000
Tornado4814$615,000
Flash Flood4200$65,000
Winter Storm3802
Heavy Snow2900$4,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2200
Ice Storm1500
High Wind1500$29,000
Flood900$800,000
Winter Weather900$2,000
Drought700$500 million
Lake-Effect Snow300
Strong Wind200$16,000
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 Potter County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Potter CountyEvery warning in Potter 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.