Tennessee

Storm History: McMinn County, Tennessee

420 episodes, 539 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in McMinn 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
539
Deaths
2
Injuries
121
Damage
$26 million
Episodes
420

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
Thunderstorm Wind18903$1.6 million
Hail13300$272,000
Tornado951118$6.8 million
Flash Flood5300$17 million
Winter Storm1800
Flood1700$920,000
Heavy Snow1700
High Wind810$102,000
Ice Storm400
Drought100
Funnel Cloud100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Tropical Storm100$8,000
Lightning100$10,000

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 McMinn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in McMinn CountyEvery warning in McMinn 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.