Texas

Storm History: Baylor County, Texas

382 episodes, 543 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Baylor 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
543
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$4.3 million
Episodes
382

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
Hail16700$232,000
Tornado13202$3.9 million
Drought9900
Thunderstorm Wind3900$77,000
Flash Flood3800$1,000
High Wind1300$10,000
Excessive Heat1200
Winter Storm800$5,000
Wildfire600
Heavy Snow500
Ice Storm500$25,000
Winter Weather400
Heat400
Dense Fog300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Funnel Cloud100
Flood100
Blizzard100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Baylor County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Baylor CountyEvery warning in Baylor 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.