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The public record 1996 to today

Pennsylvania wind history

The public federal storm record holds 1,971 days with wind on record somewhere in Pennsylvania since 1996, 1,001 of them at 58 mph or more, across 63,392 reports. The strongest on record is 172 mph on 19 November 2016 in CLARION County. 192 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: Pennsylvania hail history.

1,971

Days with wind on record, statewide

1,001

Days at 58 mph or more

172mph

Strongest measured, Nov 2016

192

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Pennsylvania

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Carnegie 326 days 105 mph
  2. 02 Swissvale 324 days 105 mph
  3. 03 Crafton 324 days 105 mph
  4. 04 Philadelphia 322 days 94 mph
  5. 05 Baldwin 322 days 105 mph
  6. 06 Wilkinsburg 322 days 105 mph
  7. 07 Pittsburgh 321 days 105 mph
  8. 08 Brentwood 317 days 105 mph
  9. 09 Duquesne 316 days 105 mph
  10. 10 Yeadon 315 days 105 mph
  11. 11 Forest Hills 315 days 105 mph
  12. 12 Munhall 314 days 105 mph
  13. 13 Dormont 313 days 105 mph
  14. 14 West Mifflin 311 days 105 mph
  15. 15 Darby 311 days 105 mph
  16. 16 Lansdowne 310 days 105 mph
  17. 17 McKeesport 309 days 105 mph
  18. 18 Pleasant Hills 309 days 105 mph
  19. 19 Castle Shannon 307 days 105 mph
  20. 20 Whitehall 306 days 105 mph
  21. 21 Clifton Heights 306 days 105 mph
  22. 22 Collingdale 302 days 105 mph
  23. 23 Jefferson Hills 301 days 105 mph
  24. 24 Sharon Hill 301 days 105 mph
  25. 25 Glenolden 299 days 105 mph
  26. 26 Folcroft 299 days 105 mph
  27. 27 Bethel Park 297 days 105 mph
  28. 28 White Oak 291 days 105 mph
  29. 29 Norwood 291 days 105 mph
  30. 30 Prospect Park 284 days 105 mph
Every place in Pennsylvania (192)

Wind days by year in Pennsylvania

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2011, with 80 days of wind, 33 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Pennsylvania

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Pennsylvania: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
19 Nov 2016 172 mph Gust Ground observation CLARION
29 Apr 2025 120 mph Gust Ground observation CAMBRIA
29 Apr 2025 120 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
27 Jun 2002 115 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
27 Jun 2002 115 mph Sustained Ground observation LEBANON
15 May 2018 115 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
15 May 2018 115 mph Gust Ground observation WAYNE
15 May 2018 115 mph Sustained Ground observation WAYNE
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Get the wind report for an address in Pennsylvania

The figures on this page are the record across Pennsylvania: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Pennsylvania by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.