Texas

Storm History: Austin County, Texas

198 episodes, 270 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Austin 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
270
Deaths
4
Injuries
7
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
198

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
Tornado9617$12 million
Hail5610$2.5 million
Flash Flood4520$281,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$189,000
Drought1400$8.3 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat600
Ice Storm500$1,000
Winter Storm500$15,000
Funnel Cloud500
Tropical Storm200$25,000
Flood200
Strong Wind100$10,000
Winter Weather100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100$25,000

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 Austin County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Austin CountyEvery warning in Austin 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.