Tennessee

Storm History: Tipton County, Tennessee

420 episodes, 582 events since 1964

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tipton 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
582
Deaths
13
Injuries
68
Damage
$120 million
Episodes
420

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
Tornado1011065$111 million
Hail10103$2.0 million
Flash Flood8500$5.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind6600$370,000
Excessive Heat6500
Heat4920
Winter Storm3100$123,000
Drought2500
Flood1200$1.1 million
Winter Weather1200
Ice Storm1010$1,000
Cold/Wind Chill700
Heavy Snow500$2,000
Strong Wind300$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$55,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Storm100$30,000
High Wind100$12,000
Wildfire100

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 Tipton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tipton CountyEvery warning in Tipton 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.