Georgia

Storm History: Rockdale County, Georgia

250 episodes, 301 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Rockdale 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
301
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
250

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
Hail7100$2.5 million
Tornado6002$8.1 million
Drought3600
Thunderstorm Wind2800$357,000
Tropical Storm1300$150,000
Flood1200$802,000
Flash Flood1200$3.6 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heat810
Ice Storm801$1.0 million
Winter Storm800$150,000
Heavy Snow700
Strong Wind610$60,000
Excessive Heat500
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain300
High Wind300$430,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
Lightning100
Winter Weather100
Dense Fog100
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 Rockdale County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Rockdale CountyEvery warning in Rockdale 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.