Tennessee

Storm History: Unicoi County, Tennessee

210 episodes, 228 events since 1967

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Unicoi 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
228
Deaths
10
Injuries
13
Damage
$17 million
Episodes
210

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
Heavy Snow6100
Thunderstorm Wind5200$427,000
Winter Storm2400
Tornado21012$332,000
Hail2100$20,000
Flash Flood17100$16 million
High Wind1400$195,000
Ice Storm600$20,000
Flood500
Winter Weather200
Blizzard200
Drought100
Strong Wind100$1,000
Lightning101

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 Unicoi County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Unicoi CountyEvery warning in Unicoi 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.