Texas

Storms in Texas in 1959

249 events in 81 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 1959, 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 1959 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
249
Deaths
6
Injuries
64
Damage
$4.6 million
Episodes
81

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
Hail8900
Tornado87664$4.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind7300

Every episode, month by month

February 1959

March 1959

April 1959

May 1959

June 1959

July 1959

August 1959

September 1959

October 1959

November 1959

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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.