Georgia

Storm History: Toombs County, Georgia

208 episodes, 243 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Toombs 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
243
Deaths
1
Injuries
8
Damage
$6.4 million
Episodes
208

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$942,000
Tornado4008$3.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$285,000
Drought2500$1.2 million
Tropical Storm1700$210,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Heat700
Flood710$26,000
Flash Flood700$38,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)600
Excessive Heat400
Cold/Wind Chill300
High Wind300$254,000
Winter Storm300
Heavy Rain200
Dense Fog200
Strong Wind200$1,000
Frost/Freeze100
Heavy Snow100
Ice 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 Toombs County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Toombs CountyEvery warning in Toombs 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.