Tennessee

Storm History: Jackson County, Tennessee

230 episodes, 287 events since 1969

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jackson 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
287
Deaths
2
Injuries
22
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
230

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
Hail7801$241,000
Tornado55221$4.4 million
Flash Flood4700$11 million
Thunderstorm Wind3200$446,000
Drought2700
Winter Storm1700$1.3 million
Heavy Snow1300
Winter Weather800$20,000
Flood400$7,000
Ice Storm200
Funnel Cloud100
Strong Wind100$1,000
High Wind100
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 Jackson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jackson CountyEvery warning in Jackson 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.