Tennessee

Storm History: Coffee County, Tennessee

386 episodes, 529 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Coffee 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
529
Deaths
3
Injuries
32
Damage
$24 million
Episodes
386

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
Tornado126226$6.5 million
Hail11000$2.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind8905$1.5 million
Flash Flood6801$787,000
Drought4400$10 million
Winter Storm2200$2.1 million
Winter Weather2110
Flood1700$47,000
Heavy Snow1400
Strong Wind700$21,000
High Wind400$55,000
Excessive Heat300
Ice Storm200$50,000
Lightning100$500,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Coffee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Coffee CountyEvery warning in Coffee 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.