Tennessee

Storm History: Pickett County, Tennessee

175 episodes, 197 events since 1973

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pickett 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
197
Deaths
5
Injuries
11
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
175

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
Hail3800$77,000
Winter Weather2800$5,000
Winter Storm2300$592,000
Flash Flood2200$337,000
Tornado21510$14 million
Drought2100
Thunderstorm Wind2001$316,000
Heavy Snow1300
Ice Storm400
High Wind300
Flood100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Funnel Cloud100
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 Pickett County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Pickett CountyEvery warning in Pickett 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.