Tennessee

Storm History: Blount County, Tennessee

523 episodes, 714 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Blount 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
714
Deaths
1
Injuries
17
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
523

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 Wind23808$1.8 million
Hail15800$1.3 million
Tornado8007$5.1 million
Heavy Snow5800$10,000
Flash Flood5400$6.5 million
High Wind4402$497,000
Winter Storm4300
Flood2200$20,000
Ice Storm600$10,000
Strong Wind400$15,000
Lightning210$6.0 million
Drought200
Funnel Cloud100
Excessive Heat100
Blizzard100

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 Blount County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Blount CountyEvery warning in Blount 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.