Tennessee

Storm History: Sequatchie County, Tennessee

229 episodes, 279 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sequatchie 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
279
Deaths
2
Injuries
9
Damage
$8.1 million
Episodes
229

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 Wind8101$587,000
Hail5800$138,000
Tornado4618$1.5 million
Flash Flood4000$5.7 million
Heavy Snow2300
Winter Storm1500
Flood700$190,000
Ice Storm510
Funnel Cloud100
Tropical Storm100$15,000
High Wind100$15,000
Heavy Rain100$1,000

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 Sequatchie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Sequatchie CountyEvery warning in Sequatchie 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.