Tennessee

Storm History: Hickman County, Tennessee

346 episodes, 491 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hickman 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
491
Deaths
9
Injuries
21
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
346

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
Tornado135417$8.7 million
Hail11400$242,000
Thunderstorm Wind6701$2.8 million
Flash Flood5813$1.2 million
Drought3000
Winter Storm2300$50,000
Winter Weather2100
Heavy Snow1310
Ice Storm720$39,000
Excessive Heat700$25,000
Flood600$7,000
High Wind300$75,000
Lightning200$52,000
Heat200
Strong Wind100$1,000
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110

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 Hickman County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hickman CountyEvery warning in Hickman 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.