Tennessee

Storm History: Weakley County, Tennessee

385 episodes, 528 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Weakley 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
528
Deaths
4
Injuries
64
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
385

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
Tornado112152$16 million
Hail9200$953,000
Flash Flood6000$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind5011$894,000
Excessive Heat4800
Heat4100$4,000
Winter Storm3200$23,000
Drought3200
Winter Weather1600
Ice Storm1000$5,000
Heavy Snow700$4,000
Cold/Wind Chill710
Lightning5111$72,000
Flood500$1.5 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
High Wind200$75,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Tropical Depression100$100,000
Strong Wind100$30,000
Dust Devil100

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 Weakley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Weakley CountyEvery warning in Weakley 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.