Pennsylvania

Storm History: Wayne County, Pennsylvania

361 episodes, 531 events since 1969

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wayne 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
531
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$111 million
Episodes
361

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 Wind10210$726,000
Hail9403$181,000
Heavy Snow8800$702,000
Flash Flood6110$90 million
Tornado5100$898,000
Winter Storm4600$20,000
High Wind2000$1.8 million
Winter Weather1500$80,000
Flood1100$8.7 million
Cold/Wind Chill700$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Drought500$200,000
Ice Storm500
Heat500
Strong Wind400$20,000
Blizzard400$250,000
Lightning200$10,000
Excessive Heat200
Frost/Freeze200$7.5 million
Lake-Effect Snow100

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 Wayne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wayne CountyEvery warning in Wayne 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.