Tennessee

Storm History: Van Buren County, Tennessee

178 episodes, 200 events since 1984

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Van Buren 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
200
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$6.4 million
Episodes
178

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.

Open the live radar over Van Buren County

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
Hail4200$66,000
Drought4200
Flash Flood2600$127,000
Tornado2111$129,000
Winter Weather1500
Winter Storm1400$5.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind1300$860,000
Heavy Snow1200
Ice Storm500$25,000
High Wind300$50,000
Lightning200$102,000
Flood200$21,000
Strong Wind200$11,000
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 Van Buren County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Van Buren CountyEvery warning in Van Buren 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.