Georgia

Storm History: Glynn County, Georgia

302 episodes, 404 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Glynn 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
404
Deaths
3
Injuries
5
Damage
$3.3 million
Episodes
302

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 Wind13500$760,000
Hail8300$13,000
Tornado5101$1.2 million
Flood2800$27,000
Tropical Storm2300
Heavy Rain2104$31,000
Coastal Flood1400
Funnel Cloud700
Drought700
Lightning600$23,000
Flash Flood500$17,000
Astronomical Low Tide500
Winter Storm400
Rip Current330
Wildfire300$1.2 million
High Wind200$6,000
Strong Wind200$7,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Waterspout100
High Surf100
Ice Storm100

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 Glynn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Glynn CountyEvery warning in Glynn 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.