Storm History: Lawrence County, Tennessee

475 episodes, 846 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lawrence 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: 846
Deaths: 9
Injuries: 154
Damage: $35 million
Episodes: 475

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Flash Flood	209	3	22	$5.3 million
Hail	192	0	4	$898,000
Tornado	174	6	105	$26 million
Thunderstorm Wind	136	0	20	$1.5 million
Drought	32	0	0
Flood	28	0	1	$210,000
Winter Storm	21	0	0	$25,000
Winter Weather	14	0	1	$25,000
Heavy Snow	12	0	0	$50,000
Excessive Heat	10	0	0	$56,000
Lightning	4	0	1	$22,000
Strong Wind	4	0	0	$27,000
Ice Storm	4	0	0	$160,000
High Wind	2	0	0	$70,000
Heat	2	0	0
Funnel Cloud	1	0	0
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0

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 Lawrence County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Lawrence County Every warning in Lawrence County since 1986 Every 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.