Storm History: Sumner County, Tennessee

530 episodes, 884 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sumner 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: 884
Deaths: 21
Injuries: 249
Damage: $126 million
Episodes: 530

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
Tornado	205	16	216	$106 million
Hail	193	0	1	$698,000
Flash Flood	173	1	2	$9.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind	164	2	10	$8.2 million
Winter Weather	36	0	0	$75,000
Winter Storm	29	0	0	$610,000
Drought	25	0	0
Heavy Snow	14	0	1	$5,000
Excessive Heat	10	0	0	$34,000
Flood	10	0	0	$25,000
Ice Storm	8	0	0	$32,000
Strong Wind	6	0	0	$32,000
Lightning	5	0	2	$62,000
High Wind	3	0	0	$255,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill	2	0	0
Freezing Fog	1	2	17	$500,000

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 Sumner County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Sumner County Every warning in Sumner 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.