Georgia

Storm History: Stephens County, Georgia

317 episodes, 348 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stephens 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
348
Deaths
1
Injuries
21
Damage
$8.9 million
Episodes
317

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
Hail8500$170,000
Thunderstorm Wind8210$85,000
Drought4400
Tornado26021$2.8 million
Winter Weather2300
Heavy Snow1600
Flash Flood1500$4.5 million
High Wind1300$46,000
Winter Storm1200
Ice Storm800$600,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
Flood400$50,000
Sleet300
Frost/Freeze200$500,000
Heat200
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Debris Flow100$50,000
Freezing Fog100
Tropical Storm100

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 Stephens County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stephens CountyEvery warning in Stephens 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.