Georgia

Storm History: Appling County, Georgia

234 episodes, 315 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Appling County, Georgia: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
315
Deaths
0
Injuries
23
Damage
$8.3 million
Episodes
234

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind11909$358,000
Hail9000$59,000
Tornado55014$1.0 million
Flash Flood1100$27,000
Flood700$1.5 million
Tropical Storm600
Drought600
Heavy Rain500
Winter Storm400
Lightning200$40,000
Funnel Cloud200
Ice Storm200
High Wind100$4,000
Frost/Freeze100$5.0 million
Strong Wind100$2,000
Winter Weather100
Wildfire100$300,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)100

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Appling County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Appling CountyEvery warning in Appling County since 1986Every county in Georgia

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.