Tennessee

Storm History: Hancock County, Tennessee

174 episodes, 190 events since 1974

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hancock 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
190
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
174

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
Thunderstorm Wind7500$710,000
Hail2600$44,000
Winter Storm2310
Heavy Snow2100
Tornado1900$373,000
Flash Flood1000
Flood600$248,000
Ice Storm500$20,000
High Wind300$40,000
Drought100
Strong Wind100$1,000

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 Hancock County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Hancock CountyEvery warning in Hancock 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.