Storm History: Muscogee County, Georgia

404 episodes, 485 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Muscogee 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: 485
Deaths: 5
Injuries: 330
Damage: $72 million
Episodes: 404

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Tornado	115	2	325	$69 million
Hail	106	0	2	$772,000
Thunderstorm Wind	77	1	1	$515,000
Heat	37	2	0
Flash Flood	32	0	0	$282,000
Drought	31	0	0	$105,000
Flood	22	0	1	$662,000
Tropical Storm	13	0	1	$185,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	10	0	0
Cold/Wind Chill	6	0	0
Excessive Heat	5	0	0
Strong Wind	5	0	0	$40,000
Winter Storm	5	0	0	$150,000
Heavy Snow	4	0	0	$3,000
Lightning	3	0	0	$55,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)	3	0	0
Heavy Rain	2	0	0
Dense Fog	2	0	0
High Wind	2	0	0	$250,000
Funnel Cloud	1	0	0
Wildfire	1	0	0	$10,000
Freezing Fog	1	0	0
Frost/Freeze	1	0	0
Ice Storm	1	0	0

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 Muscogee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Muscogee County Every warning in Muscogee County since 1986 Every 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.