Tennessee

Storm History: Cumberland County, Tennessee

366 episodes, 474 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cumberland 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
474
Deaths
11
Injuries
110
Damage
$40 million
Episodes
366

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
Hail103016$541,000
Tornado91978$14 million
Flash Flood5900$1.2 million
Winter Weather54114$30,000
Thunderstorm Wind4402$1.6 million
Drought4400
Winter Storm3100$20 million
Heavy Snow1710
Flood1300$22,000
High Wind500$55,000
Lightning400$158,000
Ice Storm400
Strong Wind300$4,000
Wildfire100$2.0 million
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 Cumberland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cumberland CountyEvery warning in Cumberland 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.