Texas

Storm History: Bastrop County, Texas

335 episodes, 490 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bastrop 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
490
Deaths
4
Injuries
121
Damage
$271 million
Episodes
335

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
Tornado12506$5.6 million
Hail12300$300,000
Flash Flood892105$3.4 million
Drought6000
Thunderstorm Wind3700$1.1 million
Winter Storm1300
Winter Weather1100$1.2 million
Tropical Storm1000$1.5 million
Wildfire720$250 million
Excessive Heat500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Flood4010$8.1 million
Ice Storm100

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 Bastrop County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bastrop CountyEvery warning in Bastrop 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.