Tennessee

Storm History: Morgan County, Tennessee

313 episodes, 385 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Morgan 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
385
Deaths
9
Injuries
46
Damage
$4.4 million
Episodes
313

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 Wind12509$1.3 million
Hail9700$87,000
Flash Flood5000$365,000
Tornado48937$2.7 million
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Storm2100
Flood700
Ice Storm600
Funnel Cloud200
High Wind200$30,000
Drought100
Tropical Storm100$15,000
Blizzard100

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 Morgan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Morgan CountyEvery warning in Morgan 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.