Tennessee

Storm History: Fentress County, Tennessee

365 episodes, 465 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fentress 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
465
Deaths
9
Injuries
169
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
365

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
Tornado977159$5.5 million
Hail8700$415,000
Winter Weather6400$15,000
Flash Flood6000$5.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind4901$1.0 million
Winter Storm3301$17 million
Drought3300
Heavy Snow1604
Flood900$8,000
Ice Storm700$40,000
Strong Wind400$5,000
Lightning324$15,000
High Wind200$250,000
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 Fentress County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fentress CountyEvery warning in Fentress 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.