Pennsylvania

Storm History: Somerset County, Pennsylvania

482 episodes, 652 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Somerset 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
652
Deaths
7
Injuries
28
Damage
$6.9 million
Episodes
482

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 Wind19947$767,000
Flash Flood9102$1.2 million
Hail8000$95,000
Heavy Snow6600$14,000
Tornado50117$4.4 million
Winter Storm4500
Flood2710$29,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2710
High Wind2500$383,000
Ice Storm1500$50,000
Drought1000
Winter Weather1001
Blizzard200
Strong Wind200$7,000
Tropical Storm100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Lightning101

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 Somerset County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Somerset CountyEvery warning in Somerset 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.