Texas

Storms in Texas in 1981

768 events in 110 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 1981, 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 1981 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
768
Deaths
1
Injuries
83
Damage
$66 million
Episodes
110

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
Hail29600
Thunderstorm Wind28900
Tornado183183$66 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1981

March 1981

April 1981

May 1981

June 1981

July 1981

August 1981

September 1981

October 1981

November 1981

More

Every year in TexasEvery state in 1981Tornadoes in Texas in 198119801982

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.