Georgia

Storm History: Clinch County, Georgia

216 episodes, 281 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clinch 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
281
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$8.3 million
Episodes
216

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 Wind11600$685,000
Hail8100$13,000
Tornado3400$175,000
Heavy Rain800
Tropical Storm700
Wildfire701$7.2 million
Drought700
Flood500$32,000
Funnel Cloud400
Flash Flood300
Lightning200$150,000
Strong Wind200$10,000
Winter Storm200
Frost/Freeze100
Winter Weather100
Hurricane (Typhoon)111

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 Clinch County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Clinch CountyEvery warning in Clinch 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.