Lewis County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Lewis County: 1.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the county boundary (or inside the county).
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. Mar 31, 2023Tornado$900,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This narrative continues and concludes a long track tornado that began in NWS Memphis's area before entering Wayne County in NWS Nashville's area. After leaving Wayne County, the tornado continued into Lewis County along Cothran Road and continued northeast across Seiber Ridge Road, Rockhouse Road, Howard Switch Road, Buffalo Road, and the Natchez Trace Parkway at Summertown Highway, blowing down hundreds of more trees and damaging several homes and outbuildings. The last damage was noted on Tiger Bennett Road before the tornado lifted west of Big Swan Road. Damages are estimated for Lewis County.

2. Feb 5, 2008Tornado$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Across extreme northwest Lewis County, trailers were destroyed. Roofs were damaged. Barns and outbuildings were flattened along McCord Hollow Road and Cane Creek Rd.||TEMA reported 6 homes had major damage, one mobile home was destroyed in Lewis County.

3. May 2, 2010Flood$430,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   State Highway 20, from Hohenwald down to the Lawrence County Border, had water across the road in numerous locations, making the road impassible. Also, county's swift water rescue team reported that State Highway 20 was flooded at multiple locations between the Natchez Trace Parkway and Hohenwald. Numerous homes and businesses|across the county also received flood damage. Also, additonal roads across the county|were impassible.

4. Mar 3, 2023High Wind, Lewis$300,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Several hours of severe non-thunderstorm winds resulted in numerous damage reports, including downed and uprooted trees, downed powerlines, and roof and other property damage across all of Lewis County. About an estimated 1,500 customers were without power. Damages are estimated.

5. May 1, 2009Flash Flood$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Roads in the Cane Creek and McCord Hollow area were all but destroyed as flood waters lifted the asphalt from the roadways and piled it up where ever the water receded. Highway Commissioner Ronnie Darnell said the damage, which was widespread across Lewis County, was the worst he had seen since he took office in 1977. Bridges across the county also suffered damage as asphalt and dirt around the bridges was washed away. A outbuilding at a sawmill on Slippery Creek Road left its foundation when the flood waters rose, along with other damage at the sawmill directly attributed to flash flooding.

6. May 7, 2003Flash Flood$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   TEMA and FEMA estimated flood damage to be at $250K for numerous roads and bridges across Lewis county.

7. Jan 30, 2013Tornado$250,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF1 tornado touched down south of Hohenwald along Wildwood Road and moved eastward through rural forested areas before lifting east of Highway 20 to the south of Springer Church House Road. A mobile home had minor roof damage on Swiss Colony Road. 1 mobile home was completely destroyed, 5 mobile homes were damaged, and an outbuilding was destroyed on the south end of Kayla Lane. Another mobile home lost its roof on the east end of Colonial Road and 2 others were damaged. A house on Highway 20 just south of Grinder Creek Road suffered minor roof damage. Hundreds of trees were snapped and uprooted all along the path. Aerial and street view imagery from Google Earth greatly…

8. Jan 24, 2002Flash Flood$225,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Highway department reported some roads closed due to stream overflow. Damage to roads and bridges estimated at $225,000.

9. May 1, 2009Tornado$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This EF1 Tornado, with maximum estimated wind speed at 100 mph, started 8 miles south-southeast of Hohenwald in Lewis County, or just west of Napier, and moved east into far northwest Lawrence County. It snapped or uprooted many hundreds of large hardwood trees. It also flipped a tractor trailer. The hardest hit area was a large campground in Napier. In addition to the trees, several large camper trailers were damaged or flipped by the tornado. Two people sustained minor injuries and had to be rescued from inside the camper.||Newspaper also reported that three homes received damage but details of damage not given.

10. May 3, 2020Thunderstorm Wind$145,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Roofs were blown off several buildings and numerous trees were blown down in Hohenwald.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

108°FJul 29, 1952

All-time low

−21°FJan 26, 1940

Warmest night

84°FAug 9, 1943

Coldest day

4°FJan 21, 1985

Wettest day

6.94 inApr 15, 1910

Snowiest day

15.5 inJan 1, 1964

Hottest year

1897mean 62.6°F

Coldest year

1976mean 54.3°F

Wettest year

201981.82 in

Driest year

194742.13 in

Snowiest season

39.9 in1959-60

Station Waynesboro (USC00409502), 750 ft elevation, 20.7 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1893 to October 17, 2026; 97.5% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

Neighbouring counties

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00409502.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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