NOAA STORM EVENTS · COMPLETE YEARS 2016–2025HISTORICAL REPORTS, NOT A FORECAST OR RISK SCORE
STORM EVENTLEDGERCOUNTY REPORTS · SEASONALITY · IMPACT
EVENT FILE / 42071MINIMUM 5 REPORTS

LANCASTER · PA

Tornado history

NOAA records coded as Tornado in Lancaster during the ten complete years from 2016 through 2025.

Reports7NOAA county-coded rows
Population context1.3per 100,000 residents · 2024 ACS denominator 557,931
Injuries6direct + indirect fields
Fatalities0direct + indirect fields
Not a probability

7 reports in ten years does not mean a 0.7-event annual forecast. Reporting units, event segmentation, coverage, and local exposure all affect the count.

01 / YEAR-BY-YEAR

How the record changed

20161
20192
20221
20231
20252
03 / RECORDED CONSEQUENCES

Impact fields on these rows

Damage estimates are nominal values as filed by the reporting source and retained by NOAA.

Property damage$8.5Mnot inflation-adjusted
Crop damage$0not inflation-adjusted
First report year2,016within selected window
Latest report year2,025within selected window
04 / RECENT ROW SAMPLE

Latest records in this slice

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DateEvent IDSourceMagnitude / scaleFiled damage
2025-09-04NOAA 1,281,395NWS Storm SurveyEF0$10K
2025-05-04NOAA 1,252,385NWS Storm SurveyEF0$30K
2023-08-07NOAA 1,117,896NWS Storm SurveyEF0$0
2022-05-27NOAA 1,019,237NWS Storm SurveyEF1$325K
2019-05-28NOAA 818,629NWS Storm SurveyEF1$25K
2019-05-19NOAA 818,369NWS Storm SurveyEF1$100K
2016-02-24NOAA 612,796NWS Storm SurveyEF2$8.0M
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