Tennessee

Storm History: Wilson County, Tennessee

517 episodes, 1,023 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wilson 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
1,023
Deaths
5
Injuries
81
Damage
$476 million
Episodes
517

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
Hail25102$999,000
Tornado235377$430 million
Flash Flood21011$40 million
Thunderstorm Wind17901$4.8 million
Drought3700
Winter Storm2700$300,000
Flood2500$138,000
Winter Weather2400$100,000
Excessive Heat1210$62,000
Heavy Snow1000
Strong Wind500$50,000
Lightning300$16,000
High Wind200$15,000
Ice Storm200
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 Wilson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wilson CountyEvery warning in Wilson 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.