Tennessee

Storm History: Lake County, Tennessee

268 episodes, 320 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lake 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
320
Deaths
3
Injuries
1
Damage
$9.2 million
Episodes
268

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.

Open the live radar over Lake County

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
Excessive Heat5900
Heat4400
Tornado3930$5.6 million
Winter Storm3100$23,000
Hail2800$562,000
Drought2500
Flash Flood2301$690,000
Thunderstorm Wind1500$111,000
Winter Weather1500
Ice Storm800$5,000
Flood700$1.9 million
Cold/Wind Chill700
Heavy Snow600$3,000
High Wind300$60,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$50,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Tropical Depression100$150,000
Strong Wind100$15,000

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 Lake County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lake CountyEvery warning in Lake 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.