Tennessee

Storm History: Lewis County, Tennessee

214 episodes, 276 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lewis 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
276
Deaths
1
Injuries
18
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
214

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
Tornado68116$28 million
Hail5502$188,000
Flash Flood4600$452,000
Thunderstorm Wind2600$504,000
Drought2600
Winter Storm2000$16,000
Heavy Snow900$50,000
Winter Weather900
Flood500$24,000
Excessive Heat400
Ice Storm300$125,000
Heat200
High Wind100
Strong Wind100$1,000
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 Lewis County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lewis CountyEvery warning in Lewis 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.