Storm History: Jefferson County, Georgia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jefferson 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
- 232
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 19
- Damage
- $17 million
- Episodes
- 208
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 61 | 0 | 7 | $244,000 |
| Tornado | 46 | 0 | 12 | $10 million |
| Drought | 29 | 0 | 0 | $6.0 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 20 | 0 | 0 | $127,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 12 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $249,000 |
| Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $50,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $81,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Freezing Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $500 |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
None recorded.
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, January 13, 1972
- Tornado, March 7, 1996
- Tornado, March 15, 2008
- Tornado, July 25, 1981
- Flash Flood, July 23, 1997
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Strong Wind, September 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 2, 1996
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Hail, September 27, 2011
- Flash Flood, September 16, 2020
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, July 1, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 2004
- Tornado, July 19, 1971
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Flash Flood, March 19, 2003
- Hail, May 25, 2014
- Hail, April 24, 1999
- Hail, August 15, 2023
- Hail, May 6, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2013
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Hail, September 27, 2011
- Hail, June 11, 2008
- Flood, July 22, 2008
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Hail, July 1, 2007
- Hail, August 17, 2007
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, January 13, 1972
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, March 15, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, March 8, 1961
- Tornado, April 18, 1969
- Tornado, July 22, 1970
- Tornado, July 19, 1971
- Tornado, October 1, 1989
- Tornado, November 16, 2011
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 30, 2026
- Drought, January 13, 2026
- Drought, October 1, 2025
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 26, 2024
- Tornado, January 9, 2024
- Hail, August 15, 2023
- Tornado, January 3, 2023
- Hail, May 6, 2022
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, May 3, 2021
- Tropical Storm, October 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, September 16, 2020
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Drought, October 15, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 23, 2019
- Hail, June 21, 2019
- Hurricane (Typhoon), October 10, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 3, 2018
- Tornado, March 19, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2018
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 19, 2017
- Tornado, April 3, 2017
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Hail, July 18, 2016
- Flash Flood, August 6, 2015
- Hail, July 1, 2015
- Tornado, November 23, 2014
- Hail, May 27, 2014
- Hail, May 25, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 11, 2014
- Tornado, January 11, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2013
- Flood, July 13, 2013
- Hail, May 21, 2013
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 2012
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Hail, June 10, 2012
- Hail, May 31, 2012
- Tornado, November 16, 2011
- Hail, September 27, 2011
- Hail, September 25, 2011
- Tropical Storm, September 4, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Hail, August 9, 2011
- Lightning, August 6, 2011
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Hail, June 20, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Tropical Storm, November 10, 2009
- Flood, May 6, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 2008
- Hail, August 4, 2008
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Flood, July 22, 2008
- Hail, July 5, 2008
- Hail, June 11, 2008
- Tornado, May 20, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, March 15, 2008
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Hail, August 17, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2007
- Hail, July 1, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Hail, July 28, 2006
- Hail, May 13, 2006
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, December 28, 2005
- Freezing Fog, December 16, 2005
- Tropical Storm, October 5, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), August 29, 2005
- Hail, August 22, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 12, 2005
- Hail, April 13, 2005
- Strong Wind, April 2, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 27, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 26, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 6, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2004
- Hail, June 12, 2004
- Drought, March 1, 2004
- Hail, August 10, 2003
- Tropical Storm, July 1, 2003
- Tornado, July 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2003
- Hail, May 11, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, March 19, 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
- Drought, August 1, 2002
- Flood, July 31, 2002
- Flood, July 21, 2002
- Hail, July 6, 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
- Dense Fog, January 29, 2002
- Heat, January 24, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2002
- Winter Storm, 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
- Hail, August 24, 2001
- Flood, June 3, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 1, 2000
- Drought, July 1, 2000
- Hail, June 22, 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
- Hail, August 20, 1999
- Hail, August 19, 1999
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Heat, July 20, 1999
- Hail, June 29, 1999
- Drought, May 1, 1999
- Hail, April 24, 1999
- Flood, August 18, 1998
- Hail, June 9, 1998
- Hail, April 22, 1998
- Hail, April 17, 1998
- Tornado, April 3, 1998
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 1997
- Flash Flood, July 23, 1997
- Hail, July 16, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 18, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, June 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 1996
- Tornado, June 15, 1996
- Hail, April 26, 1996
- Tornado, March 7, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 2, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 3, 1992
- Hail, July 1, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 1, 1991
- Hail, August 21, 1990
- Hail, April 28, 1990
- Tornado, October 1, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 28, 1989
- Hail, June 26, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 1987
- Hail, July 29, 1986
- Tornado, April 14, 1984
- Tornado, December 4, 1983
- Tornado, April 23, 1983
- Hail, February 16, 1982
- Tornado, July 25, 1981
- Tornado, March 18, 1981
- Tornado, April 13, 1979
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 21, 1974
- Tornado, January 13, 1972
- Tornado, July 19, 1971
- Hail, June 27, 1971
- Tornado, July 22, 1970
- Tornado, April 18, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 1966
- Tornado, March 8, 1961
- Hail, June 3, 1959
More
Tornadoes in Jefferson CountyEvery warning in Jefferson 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.