Tennessee

Storm History: Hardeman County, Tennessee

360 episodes, 470 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hardeman 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
470
Deaths
8
Injuries
26
Damage
$8.5 million
Episodes
360

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
Hail9300$186,000
Tornado76725$7.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind5911$400,000
Flash Flood5800$351,000
Excessive Heat5300
Heat3900
Winter Storm2700$28,000
Drought2000
Winter Weather1100
Heavy Snow800$3,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Flood400$180,000
Ice Storm400$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
High Wind200$15,000
Tropical Storm200$11,000
Frost/Freeze200
Strong Wind200$21,000
Lightning100$25,000

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 Hardeman County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hardeman CountyEvery warning in Hardeman 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.