Storm History: Wilcox County, Georgia
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wilcox 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
- 197
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 11
- Damage
- $15 million
- Episodes
- 176
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 | 42 | 0 | 2 | $804,000 |
| Tornado | 38 | 1 | 9 | $2.5 million |
| Drought | 27 | 0 | 0 | $11 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 14 | 0 | 0 | $13,000 |
| Flash Flood | 14 | 0 | 0 | $282,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 12 | 0 | 0 | $105,000 |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 8 | 0 | 0 | $171,000 |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 3 | 0 | 0 | $106,000 |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Dense Fog | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, May 23, 2017
- Hail, October 9, 2008
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Tornado, January 20, 1963
- Tornado, November 8, 1989
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Hail, July 20, 2000
- Flash Flood, March 27, 2005
- Flood, June 21, 2001
- Tornado, December 28, 2005
- High Wind, September 6, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, December 15, 2007
- Flash Flood, March 4, 2020
- Hail, June 11, 1994
- Hail, May 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2012
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, May 26, 2011
- Hail, June 4, 1999
- Hail, October 9, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 27, 2005
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Hail, February 14, 1984
- Hail, May 6, 2022
- Hail, June 5, 2012
- Hail, June 15, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2003
- Hail, June 22, 2000
- Hail, July 20, 2000
- Hail, January 18, 1999
- Hail, August 19, 1999
- Hail, June 5, 1998
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 23, 1971
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Tornado, November 8, 1989
- Tornado, January 20, 1963
- Tornado, October 30, 1993
- Tornado, November 7, 1995
- Tornado, April 14, 2007
- Tornado, December 15, 2007
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 18, 2026
- Drought, January 13, 2026
- Tornado, January 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 2022
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2022
- Hail, May 6, 2022
- Tornado, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, January 2, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 11, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2020
- Flash Flood, March 4, 2020
- Drought, October 8, 2019
- Hail, September 9, 2019
- Hail, June 21, 2019
- Hail, May 10, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 9, 2019
- Hurricane (Typhoon), October 10, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2018
- Hail, June 25, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2018
- Tropical Storm, September 11, 2017
- Tornado, May 23, 2017
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Tornado, January 2, 2017
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Tropical Storm, September 2, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2016
- Hail, July 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 20, 2013
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Flash Flood, August 2, 2012
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2012
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2012
- Hail, June 5, 2012
- Hail, October 13, 2011
- Tropical Storm, September 4, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Hail, May 26, 2011
- Hail, May 14, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2010
- Hail, June 15, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2010
- Tropical Storm, November 10, 2009
- Hail, June 22, 2009
- Hail, June 17, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, March 27, 2009
- Flood, February 28, 2009
- Tornado, December 10, 2008
- Hail, October 9, 2008
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, December 15, 2007
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Hail, August 18, 2007
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2007
- Hail, July 20, 2007
- Hail, July 19, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Tornado, April 14, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Hail, May 10, 2006
- Tornado, January 2, 2006
- Tornado, December 28, 2005
- Tropical Storm, October 5, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), August 29, 2005
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 10, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 12, 2005
- Flood, March 27, 2005
- Flash Flood, March 27, 2005
- Hail, March 22, 2005
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2005
- Strong Wind, September 27, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 26, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 16, 2004
- High Wind, September 6, 2004
- Tropical Storm, September 6, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 24, 2004
- Tornado, July 13, 2004
- Hail, July 6, 2004
- Drought, March 1, 2004
- Tropical Storm, July 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, May 17, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 23, 2003
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 11, 2003
- Drought, January 1, 2003
- Heavy Rain, October 6, 2002
- Flood, September 18, 2002
- Tropical Storm, September 14, 2002
- Excessive Heat, September 3, 2002
- Drought, August 1, 2002
- Cold/Wind Chill, May 18, 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
- Drought, December 1, 2001
- Heat, December 1, 2001
- Heat, November 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 27, 2001
- Drought, October 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, September 26, 2001
- Flood, June 21, 2001
- High Wind, April 3, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2001
- Heavy Rain, March 1, 2001
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, December 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, October 8, 2000
- Drought, October 1, 2000
- Hail, July 20, 2000
- Hail, July 11, 2000
- Drought, July 1, 2000
- Hail, June 22, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, June 7, 2000
- Drought, June 1, 2000
- Drought, May 1, 2000
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, April 9, 2000
- Drought, April 1, 2000
- Flash Flood, March 30, 2000
- Drought, February 1, 2000
- Hail, August 19, 1999
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Drought, August 1, 1999
- Heat, July 20, 1999
- Hail, June 29, 1999
- Hail, June 4, 1999
- Drought, May 1, 1999
- Hail, January 18, 1999
- High Wind, September 3, 1998
- Flood, August 18, 1998
- Hail, July 3, 1998
- Hail, June 5, 1998
- Flood, March 8, 1998
- Flood, February 4, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 22, 1998
- Flood, December 24, 1997
- Hail, November 1, 1997
- Drought, September 1, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 31, 1997
- Hail, June 1, 1997
- Cold/Wind Chill, June 1, 1997
- Hail, April 15, 1996
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 3, 1996
- Tornado, November 7, 1995
- Hail, June 11, 1994
- Tornado, October 30, 1993
- Tornado, March 31, 1993
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1992
- Hail, July 1, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 21, 1992
- Tornado, May 5, 1991
- Tornado, May 21, 1990
- Tornado, November 15, 1989
- Tornado, November 8, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 1988
- Hail, February 14, 1984
- Hail, July 6, 1980
- Tornado, April 23, 1971
- Tornado, May 20, 1963
- Tornado, January 20, 1963
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 25, 1958
- Tornado, April 14, 1955
More
Tornadoes in Wilcox CountyEvery warning in Wilcox 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.