50 Best Country Songs About Tornadoes
Country Songs on Tornadoes That Capture the Chaos
There’s a strange electricity in the air when people sing about storms. Tornado tracks in country music don’t all sound the same. Some lean into the freight-train rumble of guitars, others feel like whispered warnings through thin walls, and a few aren’t even literally tied to storms but still whip up the same restless force. These songs grab at the gut feeling of standing outside when the sky turns green and the wind goes sideways. The mood is uneasy, a mix of thrill and dread, and that’s exactly what gives them weight.
Plenty of artists from pop, rock, country, and R&B songs have tried to bottle that feeling of a storm pressing in, but country has a knack for grounding it in dirt roads and rooftops that could rip away any second. The twang cuts through with an edge that makes the listener feel like they’re sitting on the porch waiting for the sirens. Sometimes the storm is real, sometimes it’s the wreck of a relationship or the chaos in someone’s head, and the songs let both readings exist without picking one over the other.
Tornado tracks never hit the same way twice. One moment you’re in a story where the storm blows the house down, the next it’s a metaphor so thin you forget the wind until it circles back in the chorus. The important part is how they carry that raw, unsettled atmosphere, the kind you don’t shake off after the song ends. Here are the best country tornado songs that pull that weather straight into the room.
Top 10 Tornado Country Songs
1. 'Blown Away' by Carrie Underwood
2. 'Tornado' by Little Big Town
3. 'Hurricane' by Luke Combs
4. 'Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)' by Gary Allan
5. 'The Thunder Rolls' by Garth Brooks
6. 'Perfect Storm' by Brad Paisley
7. 'Chasing Tornadoes' by MacKenzie Porter
8. 'Texas Tornado' by Tracy Lawrence
9. 'Storm Warning' by Hunter Hayes
10. 'When It Rains It Pours' by Luke Combs
Songs About Weather in Country Music #11 to 20
11. 'Riding the Storm Out' by REO Speedwagon
12. 'Rain Is a Good Thing' by Luke Bryan
13. 'Like the Rain' by Clint Black
14. 'Hurricane' by The Castellows
15. 'Thunder in the Rain' by Kane Brown
16. 'I'm No Stranger to the Rain' by Keith Whitley
17. 'Smoky Mountain Rain' by Ronnie Milsap
18. 'Georgia Rain' by Trisha Yearwood
19. 'Let It Rain' by David Nail
20. 'Bring On the Rain' by Jo Dee Messina
Popular Country Songs on Storms #21 to 30
21. 'Songs About Rain' by Gary Allan
22. 'The Cyclone of Rye Cove' by The New Lost City Ramblers
23. 'Two Sparrows in a Hurricane' by Tanya Tucker
24. 'She's My Kind of Rain' by Tim McGraw
25. 'Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again' by The Fortunes
26. 'Colder Weather' by Zac Brown Band
27. 'Riders on the Storm' by The Doors
28. 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' by Gordon Lightfoot
29. 'I Love a Rainy Night' by Eddie Rabbitt
30. 'The Blizzard' by Jim Reeves
Country Songs with Weather Metaphors #31 to 40
31. 'Who'll Stop the Rain' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
32. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain' by Creedence Clearwater Revival
33. 'Rainy Day Woman' by Waylon Jennings
34. 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain' by Willie Nelson
35. 'The Wind Cries Mary' by Jimi Hendrix
36. 'Thunder' by Imagine Dragons
37. 'Hurricane' by Natalie Hemby
38. 'Shelter From the Storm' by Bob Dylan
39. 'Fire and Rain' by James Taylor
40. 'Let the Rain Come Down' by Brent Cobb
Best Country Songs About Storms #41 to 50
41. 'Come In With the Rain' by Taylor Swift
42. 'Raining on Sunday' by Keith Urban
43. 'When It Rains' by Eli Young Band
44. 'Weather Warning' by Turnpike Troubadours
45. 'Cold Day in July' by The Chicks
46. 'Hurricane' by Band of Heathens
47. 'Tornadoes' by Drive-By Truckers
48. 'Weatherman' by Hank Williams Jr.
49. 'Five Feet High and Rising' by Johnny Cash
50. 'Dust in the Wind' by Kansas
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