Storm History: Grady County, Georgia

229 episodes, 302 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Grady 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: 302
Deaths: 8
Injuries: 33
Damage: $203 million
Episodes: 229

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
Thunderstorm Wind	99	0	0	$551,000
Tornado	60	6	33	$13 million
Hail	50	0	0	$182,000
Drought	43	0	0
Flash Flood	19	1	0	$8.7 million
Tropical Storm	12	1	0	$11 million
Excessive Heat	5	0	0
Hurricane (Typhoon)	4	0	0	$161 million
Flood	3	0	0	$5,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	3	0	0
Winter Storm	2	0	0
High Wind	1	0	0	$5,000
Frost/Freeze	1	0	0	$7.8 million

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 Grady County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Tornadoes in Grady County Every warning in Grady 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.