Storm History: Lamar County, Georgia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lamar 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
- 235
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 14
- Damage
- $15 million
- Episodes
- 206
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 | 48 | 0 | 0 | $465,000 |
| Tornado | 47 | 2 | 14 | $11 million |
| Drought | 34 | 0 | 0 | $2.9 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 23 | 0 | 0 | $22,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 14 | 0 | 0 | $85,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $10,000 |
| Flood | 7 | 0 | 0 | $48,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 6 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 3 | 0 | 0 | $33,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $22,000 |
| Dense Fog | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| 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 27, 2011
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Tornado, May 3, 1956
- Tornado, January 21, 2012
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- High Wind, September 6, 2004
- Hail, August 20, 1999
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Hail, June 9, 2014
- Hail, June 3, 2018
- Tornado, May 3, 1998
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Hail, July 20, 1998
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2000
- Hail, August 9, 2011
- Tornado, April 5, 1957
- Flood, March 8, 1998
- Hail, June 15, 1998
- Tornado, November 23, 2014
- Hail, July 3, 1998
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, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, March 26, 2023
- Tornado, May 3, 1956
- Tornado, April 5, 1957
- Tornado, April 4, 1989
- Tornado, May 5, 1989
- Tornado, February 10, 1990
- Tornado, February 16, 1990
- Tornado, April 3, 2000
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, March 16, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2026
- Drought, January 13, 2026
- Tornado, June 25, 2025
- Hail, April 10, 2025
- Hail, August 18, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2023
- Hail, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, March 26, 2023
- Hail, June 14, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 2022
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, December 29, 2021
- Tropical Storm, October 28, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 3, 2020
- Hail, July 15, 2020
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2019
- Drought, October 1, 2019
- Drought, September 24, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2019
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- Hurricane (Typhoon), October 10, 2018
- Hail, June 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2017
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, April 3, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Tornado, November 30, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Hail, September 12, 2016
- Drought, September 1, 2016
- Drought, August 1, 2016
- Drought, July 1, 2016
- Tornado, November 23, 2014
- Hail, June 9, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 2012
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Hail, July 3, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Tornado, January 21, 2012
- Tropical Storm, September 4, 2011
- Hail, August 9, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2011
- Hail, June 26, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, April 15, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Hail, March 28, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Tropical Storm, November 10, 2009
- Hail, July 23, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2009
- Hail, April 5, 2009
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2009
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 2008
- Hail, July 5, 2008
- Hail, March 29, 2008
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 14, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2007
- Hail, July 20, 2007
- Hail, June 11, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Freezing Fog, December 16, 2005
- Tropical Storm, October 5, 2005
- Tornado, August 29, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), August 29, 2005
- Strong Wind, July 10, 2005
- Tornado, July 10, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 10, 2005
- Flood, July 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm, July 6, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 12, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Flash Flood, March 31, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Tropical Storm, September 26, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 16, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Flood, September 6, 2004
- High Wind, September 6, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2004
- Hail, September 1, 2004
- Hail, July 7, 2004
- Hail, May 11, 2004
- Drought, March 1, 2004
- Strong Wind, February 25, 2004
- Tropical Storm, July 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 30, 2003
- Tornado, May 5, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Hail, May 1, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2003
- Drought, January 1, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, October 12, 2002
- Heavy Rain, October 12, 2002
- Heavy Rain, October 6, 2002
- Tropical Storm, September 14, 2002
- Excessive Heat, September 3, 2002
- Drought, August 1, 2002
- Flood, June 5, 2002
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 18, 2002
- Flood, May 2, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 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
- 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
- Heavy Rain, March 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2000
- Drought, October 1, 2000
- Hail, July 20, 2000
- Flood, July 12, 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
- Tornado, April 3, 2000
- Drought, April 1, 2000
- Drought, February 1, 2000
- Ice Storm, January 28, 2000
- Hail, August 20, 1999
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Heat, July 20, 1999
- Drought, May 1, 1999
- Hail, July 20, 1998
- Hail, July 3, 1998
- Hail, June 19, 1998
- Hail, June 15, 1998
- Tornado, May 3, 1998
- Flood, March 8, 1998
- Tornado, October 26, 1997
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 27, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, June 1, 1997
- Hail, May 9, 1997
- Hail, April 22, 1997
- Heavy Snow, December 18, 1996
- Hail, December 12, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 16, 1996
- Flash Flood, March 7, 1996
- Flash Flood, March 7, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 2, 1996
- Hail, September 1, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 29, 1995
- Tornado, May 15, 1995
- Hail, February 12, 1993
- Hail, July 5, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 1991
- Tornado, May 5, 1991
- Tornado, February 16, 1990
- Tornado, February 10, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, May 5, 1989
- Tornado, April 4, 1989
- Tornado, April 25, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 26, 1986
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 1986
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 17, 1980
- Tornado, May 17, 1980
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 1976
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 13, 1976
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 1969
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 1969
- Tornado, April 5, 1957
- Tornado, May 3, 1956
- Hail, April 6, 1955
- Tornado, June 7, 1950
More
Tornadoes in Lamar CountyEvery warning in Lamar 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.