Tennessee

Storm History: Dyer County, Tennessee

389 episodes, 490 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dyer 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
490
Deaths
37
Injuries
148
Damage
$101 million
Episodes
389

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
Tornado8735146$90 million
Excessive Heat6200
Hail5800$5.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind5700$564,000
Flash Flood5011$116,000
Heat4500$10,000
Winter Storm3211$23,000
Drought3000
Flood1800$5.1 million
Winter Weather1400
Ice Storm900$5,000
Heavy Snow800$3,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
High Wind300$36,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$32,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Tropical Depression100$100,000
Strong Wind100$10,000

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 Dyer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dyer CountyEvery warning in Dyer 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.