Georgia

Storm History: Spalding County, Georgia

307 episodes, 434 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Spalding 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
434
Deaths
5
Injuries
41
Damage
$38 million
Episodes
307

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
Tornado121440$34 million
Hail10800$802,000
Thunderstorm Wind4801$342,000
Drought3600$1.3 million
Flash Flood2700$55,000
Flood1300$27,000
Tropical Storm1300$700,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heavy Snow800$25,000
Heat700
Winter Storm700$250,000
Excessive Heat500
Strong Wind510$19,000
Ice Storm400$33,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Heavy Rain300
Lightning300$30,000
Winter Weather200
Dense Fog200
High Wind200$300,000
Wildfire100$1,000
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 Spalding County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Spalding CountyEvery warning in Spalding 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.