Texas

Storms in Texas in 1957

346 events in 82 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 1957, 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 1957 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
346
Deaths
38
Injuries
489
Damage
$40 million
Episodes
82

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
Tornado15438489$40 million
Hail10000
Thunderstorm Wind9200

Every episode, month by month

January 1957

February 1957

March 1957

April 1957

May 1957

June 1957

July 1957

August 1957

September 1957

October 1957

November 1957

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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.