Tennessee

Storm History: Sevier County, Tennessee

529 episodes, 788 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sevier 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
788
Deaths
1
Injuries
5
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
529

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 Wind19802$5.3 million
Heavy Snow12800
Hail11300$108,000
High Wind10903$587,000
Flash Flood9200$4.0 million
Winter Storm5000
Tornado4100$164,000
Flood2500$32,000
Ice Storm1000$10,000
Winter Weather800
Blizzard600
Strong Wind300$22,000
Lightning210
Drought200
Marine High Wind100$1.0 million

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 Sevier County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sevier CountyEvery warning in Sevier 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.