Storm History: Bradley County, Tennessee

380 episodes, 501 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bradley 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: 501
Deaths: 14
Injuries: 424
Damage: $54 million
Episodes: 380

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Thunderstorm Wind	155	0	0	$1.7 million
Hail	120	0	0	$121,000
Tornado	95	13	423	$38 million
Flash Flood	57	0	0	$14 million
Heavy Snow	27	0	0
Winter Storm	18	0	0
Flood	15	0	0	$5,000
Strong Wind	4	0	0	$121,000
High Wind	3	0	0	$30,000
Ice Storm	3	0	0
Lightning	2	1	1
Drought	1	0	0
Tropical Storm	1	0	0	$15,000

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 Bradley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Bradley County Every warning in Bradley County since 1986 Every 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.