Tennessee

Storm History: Haywood County, Tennessee

313 episodes, 392 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Haywood 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
392
Deaths
4
Injuries
30
Damage
$7.8 million
Episodes
313

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
Tornado59127$6.0 million
Excessive Heat5700
Flash Flood5401$548,000
Heat4400
Hail3900$145,000
Winter Storm3021$463,000
Drought3000
Thunderstorm Wind2800$202,000
Winter Weather1300
Ice Storm910$181,000
Flood700$86,000
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heavy Snow500$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400$50,000
High Wind200$30,000
Frost/Freeze200
Heavy Rain100$5,000
Lightning101
Strong Wind100$50,000

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 Haywood County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Haywood CountyEvery warning in Haywood 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.