Tennessee

Storm History: McNairy County, Tennessee

302 episodes, 410 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in McNairy 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
410
Deaths
21
Injuries
144
Damage
$77 million
Episodes
302

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
Hail7700$402,000
Flash Flood6500$2.5 million
Tornado6318143$70 million
Excessive Heat5100
Heat3800
Thunderstorm Wind2811$2.8 million
Winter Storm2500$27,000
Drought2200
Winter Weather800
Heavy Snow600$2,000
Cold/Wind Chill610
Flood510$1.0 million
Ice Storm400$1,000
Lightning300$75,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Frost/Freeze200
Strong Wind200$10,000
Tropical Storm100$15,000
High Wind100$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 McNairy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in McNairy CountyEvery warning in McNairy 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.