Georgia

Storm History: Whitfield County, Georgia

360 episodes, 509 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Whitfield 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
509
Deaths
3
Injuries
31
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
360

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
Hail14300$2.0 million
Tornado108228$4.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind6010$437,000
Flash Flood4301$2.4 million
Drought3900$2.4 million
Winter Storm1600$45,000
Winter Weather1400
Tropical Storm1300$15,000
Heavy Snow1000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Flood900$212,000
Strong Wind801$84,000
Ice Storm700$1.0 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat400
Cold/Wind Chill300
Wildfire300$27,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)300
High Wind300$13,000
Heavy Rain200
Lightning101
Dense Fog100
Frost/Freeze100
Debris Flow100$10,000

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 Whitfield County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Whitfield CountyEvery warning in Whitfield 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.