Tennessee

Storms in Tennessee in 1982

81 events in 29 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Tennessee in 1982, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Tennessee in 1982 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, 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 Tennessee

The year

Events
81
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$3.6 million
Episodes
29

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind4700
Hail2600
Tornado801$3.6 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1982

March 1982

April 1982

May 1982

June 1982

July 1982

August 1982

December 1982

More

Every year in TennesseeEvery state in 1982Tornadoes in Tennessee in 198219811983

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.