Texas

Storm History: Aransas County, Texas

254 episodes, 375 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Aransas County, Texas: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
375
Deaths
5
Injuries
69
Damage
$2.0 billion
Episodes
254

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Drought10300
Flash Flood6000$2.5 million
Tornado4903$1.5 million
Excessive Heat4000
Hail3100$400,000
Cold/Wind Chill1700$100,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300$27,000
Tropical Storm800
Heat801
Hurricane (Typhoon)7264$2.0 billion
Wildfire700$200,000
Coastal Flood500
Flood500
Frost/Freeze400
Ice Storm400
Storm Surge/Tide300$235,000
Heavy Snow200
Lightning200$20,000
Rip Current230
High Wind200$5,000
Dense Fog100
Sneakerwave101$100,000
Heavy Rain100$97,000

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Aransas County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Aransas CountyEvery warning in Aransas County since 1986Every county in Texas

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.