Georgia

Storm History: Lee County, Georgia

226 episodes, 311 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lee 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
311
Deaths
3
Injuries
34
Damage
$179 million
Episodes
226

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
Thunderstorm Wind8000$338,000
Tornado68334$52 million
Hail5600$216,000
Drought4100
Flash Flood2700$64,000
Flood1300$550,000
Tropical Storm600$2.1 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$116 million
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Ice Storm200$25,000
Heavy Snow200
High Wind100$1,000
Funnel Cloud100
Heavy Rain100
Winter Storm100$50,000
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million
Winter Weather100

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 Lee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lee CountyEvery warning in Lee 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.