Storm History: Bedford County, Tennessee
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bedford County, Tennessee: 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
- 486
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 12
- Damage
- $6.9 million
- Episodes
- 337
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 131 | 1 | 9 | $3.9 million |
| Hail | 93 | 0 | 1 | $191,000 |
| Flash Flood | 83 | 0 | 0 | $932,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 63 | 0 | 2 | $655,000 |
| Drought | 38 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 22 | 0 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| Winter Weather | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 13 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 5 | 0 | 0 | $5,000 |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | $4,000 |
| Ice Storm | 2 | 0 | 0 | $25,000 |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Tornado, May 31, 2004
- Tornado, March 15, 2025
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 22, 2019
- Tornado, February 1, 1955
- Tornado, January 24, 1997
- Tornado, May 20, 2025
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2020
- Tornado, March 9, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 20, 1996
- Flash Flood, January 23, 2002
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Flash Flood, September 17, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2015
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2022
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, May 26, 2006
- Hail, June 7, 1985
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2023
- Hail, October 18, 2011
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Hail, November 10, 2002
- Flash Flood, April 3, 1998
- Hail, May 27, 2017
- Flood, March 21, 2017
- Hail, August 7, 1962
- Hail, April 3, 2018
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2017
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 3, 1974
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, March 22, 1991
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Tornado, February 1, 1955
- Tornado, November 18, 1957
- Tornado, February 11, 1965
- Tornado, March 17, 1965
- Tornado, January 24, 1997
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
Every episode, newest first
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Hail, March 11, 2026
- Ice Storm, January 24, 2026
- Excessive Heat, July 30, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 29, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 7, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 2025
- Tornado, May 20, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2025
- Tornado, March 30, 2025
- Tornado, March 15, 2025
- Drought, March 1, 2025
- Drought, February 1, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2025
- Drought, January 1, 2025
- Drought, December 1, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2024
- Drought, July 9, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 26, 2024
- Tornado, May 14, 2024
- Tornado, May 8, 2024
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 14, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2023
- Drought, November 1, 2023
- Drought, October 17, 2023
- Tornado, August 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2023
- Flash Flood, July 20, 2023
- Hail, July 18, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 30, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 29, 2023
- Tornado, April 1, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 3, 2023
- Tornado, February 16, 2023
- Hail, January 3, 2023
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2022
- Flood, December 7, 2022
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 12, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 12, 2022
- Hail, July 7, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Hail, May 2, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 13, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Flash Flood, February 22, 2022
- Flash Flood, February 17, 2022
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 2, 2022
- Tornado, December 5, 2021
- Tornado, October 6, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 20, 2021
- Flash Flood, September 18, 2021
- Hail, August 11, 2021
- Flash Flood, July 31, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 6, 2021
- Tornado, May 4, 2021
- Tornado, March 25, 2021
- Flash Flood, February 27, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 17, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2021
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 7, 2021
- Winter Weather, November 30, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2020
- Tornado, March 28, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 28, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 20, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2020
- Tornado, February 5, 2020
- Strong Wind, September 22, 2019
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2019
- Hail, August 6, 2019
- Tornado, June 21, 2019
- Tornado, June 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 22, 2019
- Flash Flood, February 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, December 31, 2018
- Tornado, November 5, 2018
- Tornado, June 28, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2018
- Hail, April 3, 2018
- Flash Flood, March 1, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Hail, May 27, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 30, 2017
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2017
- Flood, April 21, 2017
- Tornado, April 5, 2017
- Flood, March 21, 2017
- Winter Weather, March 11, 2017
- Tornado, March 9, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2017
- Hail, December 17, 2016
- Drought, December 1, 2016
- Drought, November 1, 2016
- Drought, October 1, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 10, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2016
- Hail, July 8, 2016
- Flood, June 23, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2016
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2016
- Tornado, December 25, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 20, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 9, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2014
- Tornado, February 20, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 21, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 21, 2013
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2013
- Hail, June 10, 2013
- Hail, May 21, 2013
- Tornado, March 18, 2013
- Winter Weather, March 1, 2013
- Winter Weather, February 2, 2013
- Tornado, October 1, 2012
- Tornado, September 17, 2012
- Hail, August 1, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Drought, June 26, 2012
- Hail, May 19, 2012
- Hail, May 18, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2012
- Tornado, March 2, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 22, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 7, 2011
- Hail, October 18, 2011
- Hail, August 3, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2011
- Flood, June 28, 2011
- Hail, June 18, 2011
- Hail, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Tornado, April 4, 2011
- Hail, March 26, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 26, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 20, 2011
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2011
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2010
- Heavy Snow, December 12, 2010
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2010
- Hail, October 26, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 24, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 4, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 14, 2010
- Ice Storm, January 29, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 29, 2010
- Tornado, January 24, 2010
- Hail, January 21, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 5, 2009
- Tornado, October 9, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 17, 2009
- Hail, June 11, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 2, 2009
- Tornado, April 10, 2009
- Tornado, March 27, 2009
- Flash Flood, March 26, 2009
- Heavy Snow, March 1, 2009
- Tornado, February 11, 2009
- Drought, December 1, 2008
- Drought, November 1, 2008
- Drought, October 1, 2008
- Drought, September 1, 2008
- Hail, July 21, 2008
- Drought, May 1, 2008
- Tornado, April 11, 2008
- Drought, April 1, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 7, 2008
- Drought, March 1, 2008
- Drought, February 1, 2008
- Hail, January 29, 2008
- Tornado, January 10, 2008
- Drought, December 1, 2007
- Drought, November 1, 2007
- Tornado, October 18, 2007
- Drought, October 1, 2007
- Drought, September 1, 2007
- Hail, August 24, 2007
- Drought, August 1, 2007
- Drought, July 1, 2007
- Hail, June 23, 2007
- Drought, June 1, 2007
- Hail, May 5, 2007
- Drought, May 1, 2007
- Hail, September 23, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 4, 2006
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2006
- Hail, May 26, 2006
- Hail, April 7, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- Hail, March 31, 2006
- Hail, March 13, 2006
- Flash Flood, January 22, 2006
- Strong Wind, August 29, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 13, 2005
- Hail, August 4, 2005
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2005
- Flash Flood, February 21, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Hail, December 10, 2004
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2004
- Flash Flood, October 18, 2004
- High Wind, September 16, 2004
- Flash Flood, July 14, 2004
- Hail, July 12, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2004
- Hail, June 2, 2004
- Tornado, May 31, 2004
- Flash Flood, May 10, 2004
- Heavy Snow, February 15, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2004
- Flash Flood, February 5, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2003
- Hail, May 17, 2003
- Tornado, May 4, 2003
- Hail, May 2, 2003
- Hail, May 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, March 19, 2003
- Flood, February 15, 2003
- Tornado, November 10, 2002
- Hail, November 10, 2002
- Hail, August 18, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 22, 2002
- Hail, July 10, 2002
- Hail, May 1, 2002
- Hail, March 29, 2002
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Bedford CountyEvery warning in Bedford County since 1986Every county in Tennessee
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.