Tennessee

Storm History: Stewart County, Tennessee

311 episodes, 407 events since 1966

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stewart 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
407
Deaths
3
Injuries
9
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
311

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
Hail8610$387,000
Tornado7727$3.8 million
Flash Flood7602$14 million
Thunderstorm Wind5900$4.3 million
Drought3400
Winter Storm2300$60,000
Winter Weather1900$15,000
Heavy Snow1100
Flood700$30,000
Ice Storm600$50,000
Excessive Heat300
Strong Wind200$11,000
Heat200
Heavy Rain100
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 Stewart County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stewart CountyEvery warning in Stewart 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.