Tennessee

Storm History: Cocke County, Tennessee

327 episodes, 453 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cocke 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
453
Deaths
4
Injuries
13
Damage
$5.5 million
Episodes
327

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 Wind11900$1.0 million
Hail7500$135,000
Heavy Snow6700
Winter Storm4810
Flash Flood4120$804,000
High Wind3600$449,000
Tornado34112$3.0 million
Flood1500$2,000
Ice Storm800$10,000
Strong Wind300$7,000
Blizzard300
Drought200
Lightning201

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 Cocke County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cocke CountyEvery warning in Cocke 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.