Storm records

Storm Records: St. Lawrence River

29 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in St. Lawrence River: its floods, heat, cold, winter storms, hail, wind, lightning and tornadoes, year by year and county by county, each episode with its narrative.

The worst in St. Lawrence River on the map

The deadliest and costliest episodes on record here, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over St. Lawrence River

The record

Events
29
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$17,000

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.

Every year

Tap a year for every episode in it.

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.

Deaths each year

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Marine Thunderstorm Wind2400$17,000
Marine Hail500

The deadliest

The costliest

Marine zones

The places filed most often, as the offices named them.

Marine zoneEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
St Lawrence River Above Ogdensburg Ny zone1500$2,000
St Lawrence River From Ogdensburg to St Regis Ny zone700
St Lawrence R Above Ogdensburg Ny marine400
St Lawrence R From Ogdensburg to St Regis Ny marine300$15,000

Every year

More

Every state

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.