Georgia

Storm History: Worth County, Georgia

274 episodes, 501 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Worth 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
501
Deaths
5
Injuries
57
Damage
$259 million
Episodes
274

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
Tornado174252$21 million
Thunderstorm Wind9500$1.3 million
Hail9200$598,000
Flood4300$2.9 million
Drought4100
Flash Flood2300$616,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)1000$223 million
Tropical Storm810$2.3 million
Excessive Heat300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Winter Storm200$50,000
Heavy Snow100
Heavy Rain100
Ice Storm100$25,000
Strong Wind100$5,000
Frost/Freeze100$7.8 million
Winter Weather100
Dense Fog125

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 Worth County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Worth CountyEvery warning in Worth 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.