Georgia

Storm History: Brooks County, Georgia

201 episodes, 277 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brooks 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
277
Deaths
4
Injuries
6
Damage
$127 million
Episodes
201

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 Wind7704$245,000
Tornado4822$1.3 million
Hail4100$95,000
Drought3800
Flash Flood3300$626,000
Tropical Storm1200$1.3 million
Flood1000$232,000
Excessive Heat500
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$116 million
Winter Storm300
Funnel Cloud200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning120
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million

The deadliest

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 Brooks County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Brooks CountyEvery warning in Brooks 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.