Georgia

Storm History: Cook County, Georgia

171 episodes, 207 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cook 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
207
Deaths
7
Injuries
49
Damage
$168 million
Episodes
171

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 Wind4301$321,000
Tornado42746$3.0 million
Drought3700
Hail3301$331,000
Flash Flood2200$12,000
Tropical Storm801$1.3 million
Flood600$305,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$155 million
Excessive Heat400
Winter Storm300
Lightning200$53,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
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 Cook County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Cook CountyEvery warning in Cook 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.