Georgia

Storm History: Paulding County, Georgia

343 episodes, 490 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Paulding 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
490
Deaths
2
Injuries
17
Damage
$27 million
Episodes
343

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
Hail14223$3.6 million
Tornado106011$17 million
Thunderstorm Wind6700$207,000
Drought4100$1.1 million
Flash Flood2602$4.4 million
Flood1400$20,000
Winter Storm1400$50,000
Tropical Storm1300$40,000
Winter Weather1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heavy Snow800
Strong Wind700$15,000
Heat700
Ice Storm500$1.0 million
Excessive Heat400
Hurricane (Typhoon)400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain200
Dense Fog200
High Wind200$300,000
Lightning101
Freezing Fog100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Paulding County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Paulding CountyEvery warning in Paulding 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.