Pennsylvania

Storm History: Snyder County, Pennsylvania

261 episodes, 310 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Snyder 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
310
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
261

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 Wind8001$172,000
Hail6400$133,000
Flash Flood3210$465,000
Heavy Snow2800$4,000
Winter Storm2500
Tornado2307$11 million
Flood1900$9,000
Ice Storm1000
High Wind900$14,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Drought400
Heat300
Excessive Heat300
Winter Weather300
Blizzard100
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 Snyder County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Snyder CountyEvery warning in Snyder 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.