Tennessee

Storms in Tennessee in 2020

1,133 events in 139 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Tennessee in 2020, with each episode’s narrative and every event 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.

Tennessee in 2020 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

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The year

Events
1,133
Deaths
31
Injuries
345
Damage
$1.6 billion
Episodes
139

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 Wind62815$16 million
Flash Flood10411$5.9 million
Hail9600$233,000
Winter Weather8500
Heavy Snow5800
Tornado4129338$1.6 billion
Flood3400$69,000
Heat2300
High Wind1800
Strong Wind1700
Frost/Freeze1500
Lightning701$11,000
Funnel Cloud300
Heavy Rain300
Debris Flow100

Every episode, month by month

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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.