Storm History: Putnam County, Tennessee

429 episodes, 640 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Putnam 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: 640
Deaths: 30
Injuries: 158
Damage: $154 million
Episodes: 429

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	180	0	1	$7.3 million
Flash Flood	123	0	4	$28 million
Tornado	101	30	148	$103 million
Thunderstorm Wind	58	0	0	$1.1 million
Winter Weather	54	0	3	$350,000
Drought	36	0	0	$300,000
Winter Storm	27	0	0	$13 million
Heavy Snow	22	0	0
Flood	13	0	0	$40,000
Lightning	6	0	2	$73,000
Ice Storm	6	0	0	$56,000
High Wind	5	0	0	$326,000
Strong Wind	3	0	0	$7,000
Excessive Heat	3	0	0	$31,000
Funnel Cloud	1	0	0	$1,000
Heat	1	0	0	$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	1	0	0

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 Putnam County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Putnam County Every warning in Putnam County since 1986 Every 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.