Georgia

Storm History: Clay County, Georgia

130 episodes, 151 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clay 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
151
Deaths
1
Injuries
11
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
130

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
Drought4500
Tornado33111$8.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind3200$355,000
Hail1400$15,000
Tropical Storm600$143,000
Flood500$208,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$1.1 million
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Snow200
Winter Storm200$50,000
Ice Storm100$1,000
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million
Winter Weather100

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 Clay County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Clay CountyEvery warning in Clay 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.