Storm History: Walker County, Georgia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Walker 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
- 438
- Deaths
- 2
- Injuries
- 32
- Damage
- $34 million
- Episodes
- 346
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 116 | 0 | 1 | $1.4 million |
| Tornado | 96 | 1 | 31 | $9.7 million |
| Drought | 38 | 0 | 0 | $11 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 32 | 0 | 0 | $127,000 |
| Flash Flood | 25 | 0 | 0 | $9.2 million |
| Winter Storm | 18 | 0 | 0 | $45,000 |
| Winter Weather | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| Wildfire | 11 | 0 | 0 | $450,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 10 | 0 | 0 | $53,000 |
| Ice Storm | 8 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Strong Wind | 8 | 0 | 0 | $39,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 5 | 1 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $265,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Debris Flow | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2009
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, February 18, 1956
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Ice Storm, January 22, 2000
- Hail, June 11, 2003
- Wildfire, October 5, 2016
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, October 6, 2014
- Tornado, September 16, 2004
- Tornado, May 5, 2003
- Tornado, May 19, 1983
- High Wind, September 16, 2004
- Hail, April 23, 2009
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2018
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Tornado, May 2, 1997
- Tornado, April 9, 1998
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, November 22, 1992
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tornado, May 27, 1973
- Tornado, February 21, 1993
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Tornado, February 18, 1956
- Tornado, April 4, 1989
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, August 29, 2005
- Tornado, April 7, 2006
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Ice Storm, January 24, 2026
- Drought, January 1, 2026
- Hail, June 27, 2025
- Hail, June 14, 2025
- Tornado, May 25, 2025
- Tornado, May 20, 2025
- Tornado, May 3, 2025
- Hail, April 10, 2025
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 26, 2024
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 28, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 10, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 2023
- Hail, July 1, 2023
- Hail, June 25, 2023
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2022
- Hail, July 3, 2022
- Hail, May 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2022
- Tornado, December 29, 2021
- Hail, August 10, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Tropical Storm, October 28, 2020
- Hail, June 28, 2020
- Hail, May 3, 2020
- Tornado, April 12, 2020
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2020
- Tornado, January 11, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 16, 2019
- Drought, October 15, 2019
- Hail, August 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, July 19, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 20, 2019
- Tornado, April 14, 2019
- Debris Flow, February 20, 2019
- Winter Storm, January 29, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 6, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 8, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 6, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2018
- Tornado, June 22, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2018
- Hail, June 3, 2018
- Strong Wind, April 22, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 4, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2018
- Winter Storm, December 8, 2017
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Hail, July 15, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 20, 2017
- Drought, March 1, 2017
- Drought, February 1, 2017
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2017
- Drought, January 1, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- High Wind, November 28, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Wildfire, October 5, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Drought, September 1, 2016
- Drought, August 1, 2016
- Drought, July 1, 2016
- Drought, June 1, 2016
- Drought, May 31, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 15, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 22, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2016
- Excessive Heat, September 5, 2015
- Hail, July 13, 2015
- Hail, July 1, 2015
- Hail, June 26, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2015
- Tornado, April 19, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 24, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2015
- Wildfire, November 15, 2014
- Tornado, October 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2014
- Tornado, April 28, 2014
- Tornado, February 21, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Wildfire, January 4, 2014
- Wildfire, November 10, 2013
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2013
- Tornado, April 11, 2013
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Tornado, January 30, 2013
- Hail, August 1, 2012
- Hail, July 4, 2012
- Wildfire, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Hail, May 29, 2012
- Wildfire, March 8, 2012
- Wildfire, February 25, 2012
- Hail, January 11, 2012
- Tornado, September 5, 2011
- Tropical Storm, September 4, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 19, 2011
- Hail, June 26, 2011
- Hail, June 24, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2011
- Hail, June 18, 2011
- Hail, June 15, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 2011
- Hail, April 11, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Tornado, March 26, 2011
- Hail, February 28, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 25, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Winter Weather, January 26, 2011
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 25, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 15, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 12, 2010
- Tornado, October 25, 2010
- Wildfire, October 16, 2010
- Wildfire, September 18, 2010
- Wildfire, August 10, 2010
- Hail, June 15, 2010
- Tornado, April 24, 2010
- Tornado, March 12, 2010
- Heavy Snow, March 2, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Ice Storm, January 29, 2010
- Winter Weather, January 7, 2010
- High Wind, December 24, 2009
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2009
- Tropical Storm, November 10, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2009
- Hail, September 8, 2009
- Hail, April 23, 2009
- Tornado, April 19, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, March 27, 2009
- Wildfire, March 20, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 11, 2009
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2008
- Tornado, December 10, 2008
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 2008
- Hail, July 28, 2008
- Hail, July 21, 2008
- Hail, June 28, 2008
- Hail, June 9, 2008
- Hail, April 11, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 6, 2008
- High Wind, January 29, 2008
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 14, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Hail, April 3, 2007
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2007
- Flood, October 16, 2006
- Hail, July 21, 2006
- Hail, June 30, 2006
- Hail, May 26, 2006
- Hail, May 20, 2006
- Hail, May 13, 2006
- Hail, April 20, 2006
- Hail, April 19, 2006
- Tornado, April 7, 2006
- Hail, April 3, 2006
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2006
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2006
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2006
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2006
- Tropical Storm, October 5, 2005
- Tornado, August 29, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), August 29, 2005
- Strong Wind, July 10, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm, July 6, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 12, 2005
- Hail, May 10, 2005
- Hail, April 22, 2005
- Strong Wind, April 2, 2005
- Flood, February 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Strong Wind, January 22, 2005
- Hail, December 9, 2004
- Flood, December 9, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 26, 2004
- High Wind, September 16, 2004
- Tornado, September 16, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- Strong Wind, September 6, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2004
- Hail, August 20, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2004
- Tornado, July 13, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 31, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2004
- Drought, March 1, 2004
- Winter Storm, February 26, 2004
- Strong Wind, February 25, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 18, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2003
- Hail, July 21, 2003
- Tropical Storm, July 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 16, 2003
- Hail, June 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 16, 2003
- Tornado, May 5, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Flash Flood, March 19, 2003
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 23, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2003
- Heavy Snow, January 16, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2003
- Drought, January 1, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Heavy Rain, October 6, 2002
- Strong Wind, September 27, 2002
- Strong Wind, September 26, 2002
- Tropical Storm, September 14, 2002
- Excessive Heat, September 3, 2002
- Drought, August 1, 2002
- Hail, June 30, 2002
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 18, 2002
- Hail, May 13, 2002
- Flood, May 2, 2002
- Tornado, May 1, 2002
- Hail, April 28, 2002
- Heat, April 16, 2002
- Drought, April 1, 2002
- Heat, March 15, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, March 1, 2002
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 26, 2002
- Dense Fog, January 30, 2002
- Heat, January 24, 2002
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Walker CountyEvery warning in Walker 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.