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Buckhead & West Atlanta Storm Check: Tornado, Wind, Hail and Flood Records by County
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What storms hit Buckhead and West Atlanta, according to NOAA? Across our ten counties, NOAA filed 1,595 storm reports from 2016 through 2025 on 261 separate days: 1,246 thunderstorm wind, 145 flash flood and heavy rain, 139 hail and 65 tornado reports. They include the EF4 that hit Newnan in March 2021 and the EF3 that crossed Griffin in January 2023. The lookup below breaks the record down by town. After the next storm, The Brothers That Just Do Gutters Buckhead & West Atlanta will look over your gutters and downspouts at no charge. Call (770) 213-1621 or book online.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (yearly detail files, 2016 to 2025) for Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Douglas, Paulding, Bartow, Fayette, Coweta, Henry and Spalding counties, tallied by our team. Dollar figures are NOAA’s own estimates, and many records carry none.
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Ten years of NOAA reports for every county we serve, with tornado, wind, hail and flood counts, the strongest storms on file and the most recent report.
The interactive lookup needs JavaScript. Between 2016 and 2025, NOAA logged 1,595 storm reports in our ten counties: 1,246 thunderstorm wind, 145 flood and heavy rain, 139 hail and 65 tornado reports, on 261 separate days.
What storms here do to gutters
These are the marks our crews find most often after a storm in the metro, and most of them you can spot without a ladder:
- Limbs dropped from big oaks. A heavy limb from an old oak or pine can fold a run, crush a corner or knock a section clean off the fascia.
- Hail dents on the lip and elbows. Golf ball hail marks the outer edge first. A dent that pinches the bottom or folds the lip changes where the water goes.
- Flattened downspouts. A crushed elbow or leader chokes the flow, so the gutter overfills in the very next downpour.
- Hangers pulled from the wood. Wind and limb strikes work hangers loose, the run loses its pitch and water pools in the middle.
- Flash-flood volumes overrunning the trough. Heavy thunderstorm rain can outpace a 5 inch gutter with small downspouts, and the overflow lands right beside the house.
- Storm debris jammed at the outlets. Torn leaves, twigs and shingle granules wash down and pack the outlet where the gutter is supposed to drain.
- Split or soft fascia. A limb strike or water creeping behind the gutter damages the board the whole system hangs on.
- Water at the foundation on hilly lots. A downspout torn from its extension empties a whole roof section in one spot, and on a slope that water can carve through the yard too.
Storm just passed through? A local crew will walk your roofline, test every downspout and walk you through the findings before any price comes up.
How this works and sources
Our counts come from NOAA’s Storm Events detail files for 2016 through 2025. We filtered them to Georgia and our ten counties, then tallied Tornado, Hail and Thunderstorm Wind records plus three flood types (Flash Flood, Flood and Heavy Rain). To find the latest report we also read NOAA’s 2026 file. NOAA treats Fulton as one county, so its totals include records from the north and south ends of Fulton, not only the neighborhoods we serve.
Each NOAA record counts as one report. A tornado whose path runs into a second county is recorded in both, so it counts once per county. A storm day is any calendar date with at least one report. If two hail reports share the top size, we show the newer one. Place names appear the way NOAA lists them. Treat NOAA’s dollar estimates as a floor: plenty of records list no damage at all, and the January 12, 2023 records list only $1,000 across our counties even though an EF3 destroyed homes near Griffin.
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, detail files 2016 to 2026.
Ten years, ten counties
The six storm days that define this territory
On an ordinary storm day here, a few trees fall somewhere between Cartersville and Griffin. A few days a decade are different: a tornado on the ground for miles, golf ball hail downtown, or creeks over the roads. These six stand out in the files.
We sorted every NOAA wind, hail, tornado and flood record for our ten counties by date. The calendar surprises people. June is the busiest month with 332 reports, yet 240 reports came in December, January and February, and the two strongest tornadoes on file, the Newnan EF4 and the Griffin EF3, both hit between January and March.
Geography is the other surprise. Tornado reports lean south and west of the city: Spalding logged 14, Coweta 11, Fulton 10 and Henry 8, while Cobb and DeKalb logged 4 each. Wind reaches everyone. Coweta (182), Fulton (174) and Douglas (170) top the wind count, and most of those reports describe a tree or a limb coming down.
Flash flooding is the storm people forget. NOAA logged 145 flood and heavy rain reports here on 42 days, 48 of them in Fulton. Before the years we count, in September 2009, the National Weather Service says Sweetwater Creek rose to its 500-year flood level and Douglas and Cobb saw catastrophic flash flooding.
Six days from the record
| Date | What NOAA recorded | Counties hit |
|---|---|---|
| February 6, 2020 | 31 reports, 27 of them flash flooding, as radar estimated 2.5 to 5 inches on soaked ground. Sope Creek left its banks in Sandy Springs | Bartow, Fulton and Cobb, with single reports in Douglas, DeKalb and Spalding |
| March 25, 2021 | An EF4 with 170 mph winds on a 21.7 mile Coweta path that entered Newnan and struck Newnan High School. NOAA logged $20 million in damage | Coweta, with an EF0 into Peachtree City and two EF1s in Bartow |
| January 12, 2023 | 54 reports, 9 of them tornadoes. An EF3 of up to 155 mph crossed Griffin, and an EF1 hit Austell | All ten counties, worst in Spalding and Henry |
| March 26, 2023 | 19 hail reports, including golf ball hail near Mercedes-Benz Stadium and in East Point, and ping pong hail across Fairburn | Fulton, Coweta and Henry, plus Spalding |
| August 7, 2023 | 53 reports, 50 of them wind, with trees on houses from Peachtree Hills to Belvedere Park | Fulton and DeKalb, plus seven more counties |
| December 29, 2024 | Five overnight tornadoes. Falling trees did most of the damage: 50 to 100 large trees near Dunwoody, about a dozen homes in Cobb | DeKalb, Cobb, Douglas and two more |
Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (yearly detail files, 2016 to 2025), grouped by date across our ten counties. Ratings, wind speeds and dollar figures are from the NOAA records and NWS surveys.
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Hail comes less often here, but it lands hard
Hail shows up far less often than wind here, 139 reports in ten years. When it does fall, it tends to be big enough to leave marks you can see from the yard.
Six of our ten counties logged golf ball hail, 1.75 inches on the National Weather Service size chart, or bigger, and Paulding logged hen egg hail at 2 inches. On March 26, 2023, golf ball stones fell near Mercedes-Benz Stadium and in East Point. At that size aluminum gives way. The outer lip of a gutter and the top elbow of each downspout usually show the first marks.
We judge hail damage by how water moves, not how the metal looks. A pinched downspout chokes the outlet, so the trough fills and spills in the next hard rain. A run pushed out of pitch keeps a puddle of water and grit that never drains. Hail also strips the oak and pine canopy above many intown roofs, so the gutter fills with leaves, twigs and shingle granules in minutes.
Our hail damage checklist
| Sign | Why it matters | Our usual fix |
|---|---|---|
| Pockmarks along the outer lip | Only looks matter if water still flows, but a folded lip or low spot means spills | Run a hose test, then fix or swap the section |
| Flattened downspout or elbow | The choke point sends heavy rain back over the gutter edge | Swap the bent piece and clear the full drop |
| Leaks at mitered corners | Repeated impacts broke the sealant or shifted the joint | Clean, reseal or rebuild the corner |
| Guard panels knocked loose | Leaves and twigs slip under the guard into the trough | Reseat or swap the panel, then clean out the trough |
| Shingle grit and shredded leaves | Outlets clog a little more with every rain until overflow | Scoop the trough, then flush each outlet and elbow |
Fewer joints, fewer weak spots. Gutters rolled out seamless on site come in long single lengths, so the only seams are at corners and ends. Guards get the same scrutiny, whether it is BroGuard fine metal mesh or another brand, one panel at a time.
Sources: NWS hail size chart and severe storm criteria; NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (2016 to 2025 hail records).
Big trees, older lots
Under intown oaks, wind damage starts with a tree
Mature oaks and pines shade the older lots of Buckhead, Brookhaven, Decatur and the intown neighborhoods. In a storm, those same trees decide what happens to the roofline.
Thunderstorm wind makes up 1,246 of our 1,595 reports, and most of them describe a tree or a limb coming down. On August 7, 2023, the list read like a street map: one tree down onto a house near Peachtree Hills, eight trees down in Peoplestown, trees on houses around Belvedere Park. A gust that would barely bend a young tree can drop a big limb from an old oak.
A limb lands on the gutter first. A heavy one can fold a run in half, rip the hangers loose from the fascia or shove a downspout off the brick. A glancing blow is harder to spot: the run looks fine from the street while two hangers have let go and the pitch has flattened, so water sits instead of moving to the outlet.
Tornadoes here usually do their damage the same way. NOAA’s December 29, 2024 records describe a brief EF1 in Cobb that damaged about a dozen homes with falling trees, and an EF0 near Dunwoody that snapped or uprooted 50 to 100 large trees.
Signs a wind storm reached your gutters
- A run that dips in the middle or leans out from the house
- Loose hangers or screws in the fascia
- Downspouts hanging off the brick or split at the elbow
- Twigs, oak leaves and pine straw packed into the trough
- Rain pouring down the wall behind the gutter during the next storm
- A dented, split or spongy fascia board where a limb landed
When the wood behind the gutter is rotten or split, we replace the fascia board first, then hang the gutter on solid wood. When the run only needs rehanging and pitching, that is a gutter repair, and the price comes to you in writing first.
Sources: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database (2016 to 2025 thunderstorm wind records, August 7, 2023 wind reports for Fulton and DeKalb, December 29, 2024 tornado records for Cobb and DeKalb).
Once the storm passes
Check from the ground first, then let us check the rest
Most storm damage to gutters is visible from the yard. Stay off the ladder until the roof dries and every line is accounted for.
- Give wires and limbs roomAny wire on the ground could be live. Keep clear of limbs resting on the roof or wedged in a gutter.
- Walk a slow lap around the houseSight down each run for dips and gaps, and follow every downspout for dents, splits or missing pieces.
- Photograph itShoot each wall and every spot that worries you, dated, before anything gets moved.
- Watch the first rain afterSpills over the edge, drips at corners or water sliding down behind the gutter point straight to the trouble.
- Follow the water downhillConfirm each downspout still drains to an extension or a buried line and away from the house.
- Schedule the free checkA local crew walks the roofline and water-tests every downspout. You only get an estimate if something needs work.
Hills make that last step count. On the sloped lots across Buckhead, Vinings and Smyrna, a downspout knocked loose sends a whole roof section of water to one spot at the foundation, and on a hill it can also cut a channel through the yard. If your downspouts drain into buried pipe, have us look at that too with our underground drainage service, because a storm can pack leaves into a line you never see.
Storms are not only about wind and hail. To size your gutters for the downpours that come with them, read Summer Storm Gutter Prep for Buckhead and West Atlanta, our guide to how fast an Atlanta thunderstorm can dump water on your roof.
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Schedule My Free Storm CheckCommon Storm Check Questions
Every figure starts with NOAA’s Storm Events Database, kept by NCEI. We pulled the yearly detail files for 2016 to 2025, filtered the Georgia records down to our ten counties and counted each wind, hail, tornado and flood report ourselves, so anyone can match our numbers to NOAA’s.
NOAA sorts every storm report into a county, and Fulton is filed as one county. So the Fulton totals lump Sandy Springs, Buckhead, downtown and the south side through Fairburn together, rather than just the streets near you. Picking your town tells you which county total applies.
Yes. NOAA logged 65 tornado reports in our ten counties between 2016 and 2025, on 29 different days. Most were brief EF0 and EF1 spin-ups that brought down trees, but the record also holds the March 2021 EF4 in Newnan and the January 2023 EF3 that crossed Griffin.
Summer brings the most reports, with June the busiest month at 332. But tornadoes here favor the cooler months: the Newnan EF4 came in March, the Griffin EF3 in January and five tornadoes on December 29, 2024. December through February alone carried 240 reports.
Not always. If the limb only pulled a few hangers or kinked one downspout, a repair usually fixes it. If it folded a long run or tore the fascia, a new seamless section on solid wood is the better fix. A Solutionist will show you the damage and put the choice on paper before anyone picks up a tool.
A local crew member walks the full roofline, checks each run, corner, hanger and guard, and runs water through every downspout. You hear exactly what the storm did. If something needs fixing, the estimate is written and free; if nothing does, we say so.
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Buckhead and West Atlanta communities we serve
Every community on this list is inside our service area and gets the same local crew, seamless gutters formed on site and free written estimates. Call (770) 213-1621 or request a free quote and a Solutionist will come out.
- Acworth
- Austell
- Avondale Estates
- Brookhaven
- Brooks
- Buckhead
- Cartersville
- Chamblee
- Clarkston
- Dallas
- Decatur
- Doraville
- Douglasville
- Downtown Atlanta
- Druid Hills
- Dunwoody
- East Atlanta
- Emerson
- Experiment
- Fairburn
- Fairmount
- Fayetteville
- Grant Park
- Griffin
- Hampton
- Haralson
- Hiram
- Inman Park
- Kennesaw
- Kirkwood
- Lithia Springs
- Mableton
- Marietta
- Midtown
- Newnan
- Northlake
- Palmetto
- Peachtree City
- Powder Springs
- Rydal
- Sandy Springs
- Scottdale
- Senoia
- Sharpsburg
- Smyrna
- Tyrone
- Vinings
- Virginia-Highland
- West Atlanta
- West Midtown
- White
- Winston
After the storm
Wondering what that last storm did to your gutters?
It costs nothing to find out. A Solutionist from our Thornton Road crew in Lithia Springs will walk your roofline, test each downspout and tell you straight what needs work and what does not.
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