Georgia

Storm History: Tift County, Georgia

229 episodes, 328 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tift 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
328
Deaths
1
Injuries
20
Damage
$126 million
Episodes
229

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
Tornado83013$4.2 million
Hail7804$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind6600$400,000
Drought3900
Flash Flood2200$268,000
Flood1200$600,000
Tropical Storm800$998,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)600$111 million
Lightning413$235,000
Excessive Heat300
Winter Storm200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Ice Storm100$1,000
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million
Winter Weather100

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 Tift County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Tift CountyEvery warning in Tift 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.