Texas

Storms in Texas in 2022

5,414 events in 726 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Texas in 2022, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Texas in 2022 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
5,414
Deaths
71
Injuries
177
Damage
$1.5 billion
Episodes
726

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
Drought1,89600$108 million
Thunderstorm Wind81312$1.7 million
Hail75124$2.2 million
Heat448530
High Wind35400$76,000
Flash Flood17934$1.4 billion
Excessive Heat169040
Winter Weather16313
Tornado1423106$53 million
Wildfire121110$5.8 million
Cold/Wind Chill8800
Frost/Freeze7700
Winter Storm7556$70,000
Flood3500$355,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2600
Strong Wind1601$22,000
Lightning1200$126,000
Astronomical Low Tide1100
Ice Storm800
Sleet700
Heavy Rain700
Dust Storm600
Dust Devil300
Funnel Cloud300
Rip Current221
Coastal Flood200

Every episode, month by month

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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.