Storm History: Crisp County, Georgia

256 episodes, 304 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crisp 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: 304
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 8
Damage: $15 million
Episodes: 256

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	86	0	1	$521,000
Tornado	56	0	5	$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind	34	0	2	$511,000
Drought	29	0	0	$10 million
Flash Flood	23	1	0	$268,000
Tropical Storm	13	0	0	$210,000
Flood	11	0	0	$1.3 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	10	0	0
Heat	7	0	0
Hurricane (Typhoon)	6	0	0
High Wind	4	0	0	$361,000
Excessive Heat	4	0	0
Winter Storm	4	0	0	$25,000
Lightning	4	0	0	$256,000
Cold/Wind Chill	3	0	0
Heavy Rain	2	0	0
Heavy Snow	2	0	0
Dense Fog	2	0	0
Strong Wind	2	0	0	$7,000
Frost/Freeze	1	0	0
Ice Storm	1	0	0

The deadliest

Flash Flood, July 22, 20031 death · 1 in hail · 1 event here

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 Crisp County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Crisp County Every warning in Crisp County since 1986 Every 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.