Tennessee

Storm History: Houston County, Tennessee

208 episodes, 245 events since 1972

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Houston 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
245
Deaths
1
Injuries
0
Damage
$9.6 million
Episodes
208

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 Flood5100$4.4 million
Hail4200$253,000
Tornado3800$3.8 million
Drought3200
Thunderstorm Wind3110$1.2 million
Winter Storm2200
Heavy Snow1000
Winter Weather600
Ice Storm600
Flood200$3,000
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Houston County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Houston CountyEvery warning in Houston 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.