Georgia

Storm History: Dougherty County, Georgia

285 episodes, 471 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dougherty 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
471
Deaths
5
Injuries
74
Damage
$872 million
Episodes
285

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 Wind10802$795,000
Hail10200$786,000
Tornado98572$329 million
Flash Flood6900$652,000
Drought4200
Flood2200$116 million
Tropical Storm800$5.2 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$412 million
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Strong Wind200$11,000
Winter Storm200$50,000
High Wind100$3,000
Lightning100$20,000
Heavy Rain100
Heat100
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 Dougherty County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dougherty CountyEvery warning in Dougherty 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.