Tennessee

Storm History: White County, Tennessee

291 episodes, 381 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in White 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
381
Deaths
1
Injuries
16
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
291

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
Hail8100$277,000
Tornado81114$8.8 million
Flash Flood4500$254,000
Thunderstorm Wind4300$504,000
Drought4200
Winter Weather2900
Winter Storm2200$5.0 million
Heavy Snow1300
Flood900$10,000
Ice Storm402$25,000
Strong Wind300$22,000
High Wind300$100,000
Excessive Heat300$40,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning100$50,000

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 White County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in White CountyEvery warning in White 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.