Georgia

Storm History: Meriwether County, Georgia

286 episodes, 339 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Meriwether 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
339
Deaths
1
Injuries
40
Damage
$32 million
Episodes
286

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.

Open the live radar over Meriwether County

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
Hail8902$358,000
Tornado82038$28 million
Thunderstorm Wind3600$151,000
Drought3600$2.8 million
Flash Flood1600$64,000
Tropical Storm1300$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Flood1000$12,000
Heavy Snow700$15,000
Heat700
Strong Wind600$53,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$10,000
Excessive Heat400
Winter Storm410$150,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Ice Storm300$33,000
Heavy Rain200
Dense Fog200
High Wind100$200,000
Freezing Fog100
Frost/Freeze100
Lightning100$40,000

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 Meriwether County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Meriwether CountyEvery warning in Meriwether 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.