Tennessee

Storms in Tennessee in 2022

1,599 events in 176 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Tennessee in 2022, 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 2022 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
1,599
Deaths
4
Injuries
16
Damage
$3.5 million
Episodes
176

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 Wind45120$831,000
Heat178015
Winter Weather14200$5,000
Hail13001$405,000
Winter Storm12600
Drought11000
Heavy Snow8200
Excessive Heat8100
Flash Flood7300$615,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill6200
Flood4100$4,000
Cold/Wind Chill3100
Strong Wind2900$18,000
High Wind1800
Ice Storm1520$180,000
Frost/Freeze1200
Heavy Rain900
Tornado600$1.4 million
Lightning300

Every episode, month by month

January 2022

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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.