Storm History: Hancock County, Georgia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
- 181
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 4
- Damage
- $3.0 million
- Episodes
- 166
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 37 | 1 | 4 | $2.0 million |
| Drought | 33 | 0 | 0 | $621,000 |
| Hail | 29 | 0 | 0 | $37,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 14 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 13 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $93,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 5 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | $8,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| 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.
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Tornado, February 18, 2009
- Tornado, March 1, 2007
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2001
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, April 3, 2017
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2000
- Tornado, March 21, 2017
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2002
- Flood, June 3, 2001
- Tornado, November 30, 2016
- Hail, June 30, 2015
- Tornado, March 19, 2018
- Tornado, May 20, 2008
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, February 18, 2009
- Tornado, March 29, 1991
- Tornado, March 1, 2007
- Tornado, March 15, 2008
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, April 18, 1978
- Tornado, April 4, 1989
- Tornado, February 10, 1990
- Tornado, February 22, 1993
- Tornado, November 30, 2010
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Tornado, April 3, 2017
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2026
- Drought, January 20, 2026
- Tornado, February 16, 2025
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 26, 2024
- Hail, August 15, 2023
- Hail, June 25, 2023
- Hail, June 14, 2022
- Flash Flood, November 11, 2020
- Tropical Storm, October 28, 2020
- Hail, July 25, 2020
- Tornado, January 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2019
- Drought, November 1, 2019
- Drought, October 1, 2019
- Drought, September 24, 2019
- Hail, June 21, 2019
- Hail, May 4, 2019
- Hurricane (Typhoon), October 10, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 26, 2018
- Tornado, March 19, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2018
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, April 3, 2017
- Tornado, March 21, 2017
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Tornado, November 30, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Drought, September 1, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 27, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 6, 2015
- Hail, June 30, 2015
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Hail, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Hail, September 27, 2011
- Tropical Storm, September 4, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Tornado, November 30, 2010
- Hail, July 31, 2010
- Hail, June 21, 2010
- Hail, March 28, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Tropical Storm, November 10, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2009
- Tornado, February 18, 2009
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 2008
- Hail, July 21, 2008
- Hail, June 15, 2008
- Tornado, May 20, 2008
- Hail, March 29, 2008
- Tornado, March 15, 2008
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Tornado, March 1, 2007
- Hail, May 13, 2006
- Freezing Fog, December 16, 2005
- Tornado, December 4, 2005
- Tropical Storm, October 5, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), August 29, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm, July 6, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 12, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Tropical Storm, September 26, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2004
- Drought, March 1, 2004
- Tropical Storm, July 1, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Hail, February 22, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2003
- Drought, January 1, 2003
- Heavy Rain, October 6, 2002
- Tropical Storm, September 14, 2002
- Excessive Heat, September 3, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2002
- Drought, August 1, 2002
- Flood, July 31, 2002
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 18, 2002
- Flood, May 2, 2002
- Heat, April 16, 2002
- Drought, April 1, 2002
- Heat, March 15, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 26, 2002
- Dense Fog, January 30, 2002
- Heat, January 24, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2002
- Drought, December 1, 2001
- Heat, December 1, 2001
- Drought, November 1, 2001
- Heat, November 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 27, 2001
- Drought, October 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, September 26, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2001
- Tropical Storm, June 11, 2001
- Flood, June 3, 2001
- High Wind, March 20, 2001
- Heavy Rain, March 1, 2001
- Tornado, January 19, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2000
- Drought, October 1, 2000
- Drought, July 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, June 7, 2000
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Drought, May 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, April 9, 2000
- Drought, April 1, 2000
- Drought, February 1, 2000
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2000
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Heat, July 20, 1999
- Flash Flood, July 6, 1999
- Hail, June 4, 1999
- Drought, May 1, 1999
- Hail, June 26, 1998
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, June 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 21, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 1996
- Hail, May 7, 1996
- Hail, March 17, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 1995
- Tornado, May 15, 1995
- Hail, May 15, 1994
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 1, 1994
- Hail, March 22, 1993
- Tornado, February 22, 1993
- Hail, February 12, 1993
- Tornado, March 29, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 1990
- Tornado, February 10, 1990
- Tornado, April 4, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 28, 1983
- Tornado, July 5, 1979
- Tornado, April 18, 1978
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 21, 1974
- Tornado, August 12, 1956
More
Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.