Texas

Storm History: Archer County, Texas

479 episodes, 859 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Archer 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
859
Deaths
0
Injuries
19
Damage
$6.3 million
Episodes
479

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
Hail31800$1.0 million
Tornado258017$4.1 million
Drought8700
Flash Flood4500$40,000
Thunderstorm Wind3300$199,000
Heat2800
Excessive Heat2700
High Wind900$77,000
Heavy Snow800
Winter Storm800$5,000
Flood800$30,000
Winter Weather502$10,000
Wildfire500
Ice Storm400$25,000
Dense Fog400
Cold/Wind Chill400
Funnel Cloud200
Frost/Freeze200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Blizzard100
Lightning100$800,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Archer County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Archer CountyEvery warning in Archer 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.