Georgia

Storm History: Lanier County, Georgia

155 episodes, 210 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lanier 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
210
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$215 million
Episodes
155

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 eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado5005$3.3 million
Hail4500$345,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$71,000
Drought3500
Flash Flood1200$5,000
Tropical Storm1000$1.7 million
Flood600$62,000
Excessive Heat500
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$201 million
Winter Storm200$50,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning100$5,000
Strong Wind100$15,000
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Lanier County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lanier CountyEvery warning in Lanier 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.