Tennessee

Storm History: Giles County, Tennessee

338 episodes, 422 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Giles 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
422
Deaths
5
Injuries
16
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
338

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
Flash Flood9510$662,000
Tornado86112$8.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind7300$1.4 million
Hail7110$209,000
Drought4100$5,000
Winter Storm1900
Winter Weather1104
Heavy Snow700
Flood520$10,000
Lightning300$232,000
Ice Storm300$25,000
Heat200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
High Wind100$1.8 million
Strong Wind100$1,000
Excessive Heat100
Freezing Fog100

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 Giles County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Giles CountyEvery warning in Giles 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.