Texas

Storms in Texas in 1955

241 events in 65 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 1955, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Texas in 1955 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Texas

The year

Events
241
Deaths
2
Injuries
63
Damage
$8.7 million
Episodes
65

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Tornado110263$8.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind7300
Hail5800

Every episode, month by month

January 1955

March 1955

April 1955

May 1955

June 1955

July 1955

August 1955

September 1955

October 1955

More

Every year in TexasEvery state in 1955Tornadoes in Texas in 195519541956

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.