Georgia

Storm History: Oglethorpe County, Georgia

242 episodes, 273 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Oglethorpe 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
273
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$262 million
Episodes
242

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
Hail5600$166,000
Tornado3703$256 million
Drought3700$3.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind3600$577,000
Flash Flood1600$208,000
Tropical Storm1300$75,000
Flood1100$31,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Winter Storm1000$100,000
Ice Storm800$1.0 million
Heavy Snow700$50,000
Heat700
Strong Wind500$86,000
Excessive Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$4,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Winter Weather200
Heavy Rain200
High Wind200$255,000
Dense Fog100
Freezing Fog100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Oglethorpe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Oglethorpe CountyEvery warning in Oglethorpe 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.