Tennessee

Storm History: Johnson County, Tennessee

212 episodes, 230 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Johnson 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
230
Deaths
4
Injuries
3
Damage
$10 million
Episodes
212

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
Heavy Snow5500
Thunderstorm Wind4400$463,000
Hail3600$51,000
Winter Storm2610
Flash Flood2510$8.0 million
Tornado1223$1.2 million
High Wind1100$130,000
Flood900$249,000
Ice Storm500$20,000
Winter Weather300
Drought100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Tropical Storm100$15,000
Heavy Rain100$5,000

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 Johnson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Johnson CountyEvery warning in Johnson 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.