Tennessee

Storm History: Scott County, Tennessee

270 episodes, 334 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Scott 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
334
Deaths
0
Injuries
27
Damage
$5.8 million
Episodes
270

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 Wind11400$678,000
Hail6000$134,000
Flash Flood5200$1.8 million
Tornado38027$3.1 million
Heavy Snow2600
Winter Storm2200
Flood900$74,000
Ice Storm500
High Wind300$25,000
Lightning200$10,000
Drought100
Blizzard100
Winter Weather100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Scott County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Scott CountyEvery warning in Scott 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.