Texas

Storms in Texas in 1961

354 events in 86 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 1961, 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 1961 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
354
Deaths
11
Injuries
278
Damage
$6.2 million
Episodes
86

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
Hail13700
Tornado12611278$6.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind9100

Every episode, month by month

February 1961

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May 1961

June 1961

July 1961

August 1961

September 1961

October 1961

November 1961

More

Every year in TexasEvery state in 1961Tornadoes in Texas in 196119601962

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.