Georgia

Storm History: Early County, Georgia

214 episodes, 286 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Early 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
286
Deaths
2
Injuries
20
Damage
$669 million
Episodes
214

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
Tornado87214$6.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind5505$867,000
Hail5000$100,000
Drought4900
Flash Flood1500$59,000
Tropical Storm800$1.2 million
Flood701$2.0 million
Excessive Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$650 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Snow200
Winter Storm100$50,000
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 Early County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Early CountyEvery warning in Early 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.