Georgia

Storm History: Dade County, Georgia

296 episodes, 380 events since 1984

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dade 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
380
Deaths
2
Injuries
29
Damage
$31 million
Episodes
296

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.

Open the live radar over Dade County

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
Tornado87227$26 million
Hail8402$1.4 million
Drought3900$1.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind2500$96,000
Flash Flood2100$75,000
Winter Weather2000
Winter Storm1700$35,000
Tropical Storm1400$17,000
Heavy Snow1200
Ice Storm1000$1.0 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heat700
Strong Wind700$7,000
High Wind600$1.0 million
Flood600$5,000
Excessive Heat400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain300
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Dade County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dade CountyEvery warning in Dade 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.