Storm History: Hall County, Georgia

448 episodes, 617 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hall 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: 617
Deaths: 12
Injuries: 152
Damage: $55 million
Episodes: 448

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
Hail	172	0	2	$4.6 million
Tornado	141	10	149	$42 million
Thunderstorm Wind	81	2	0	$1.5 million
Drought	43	0	0	$934,000
Flash Flood	40	0	0	$2.1 million
Flood	22	0	0	$110,000
Winter Storm	22	0	0	$150,000
Ice Storm	13	0	0	$1.3 million
Tropical Storm	13	0	0	$200,000
Strong Wind	10	0	0	$83,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	10	0	0
Heavy Snow	10	0	0	$25,000
Winter Weather	8	0	0
Heat	7	0	0
Hurricane (Typhoon)	7	0	0	$3,000
High Wind	5	0	1	$1.3 million
Excessive Heat	4	0	0
Cold/Wind Chill	3	0	0
Heavy Rain	2	0	0
Sleet	1	0	0
Dense Fog	1	0	0
Freezing Fog	1	0	0
Frost/Freeze	1	0	0

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 Hall County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Hall County Every warning in Hall 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.