Tennessee

Storm History: Carter County, Tennessee

287 episodes, 377 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carter 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
377
Deaths
9
Injuries
0
Damage
$87 million
Episodes
287

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
Heavy Snow8500
Thunderstorm Wind8000$661,000
Winter Storm4900
Hail4820$134,000
Flash Flood4270$85 million
High Wind2400$200,000
Tornado1800$384,000
Flood1200$1.1 million
Ice Storm900$40,000
Strong Wind300$14,000
Winter Weather300
Drought200
Lightning100$30,000
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 Carter County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carter CountyEvery warning in Carter 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.