Tennessee

Storm History: Bledsoe County, Tennessee

273 episodes, 333 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bledsoe 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
333
Deaths
4
Injuries
10
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
273

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
Thunderstorm Wind10100$604,000
Hail7200$72,000
Flash Flood6100$4.9 million
Tornado42410$16 million
Heavy Snow1700
Winter Storm1600
Flood1400$5.1 million
Ice Storm600
Tropical Storm200$37,000
Funnel Cloud100
Winter Weather100

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 Bledsoe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bledsoe CountyEvery warning in Bledsoe 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.