Texas

Storm History: Briscoe County, Texas

473 episodes, 619 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Briscoe 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
619
Deaths
25
Injuries
85
Damage
$175 million
Episodes
473

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
Tornado1852584$2.4 million
Drought10200$172 million
Hail7700$258,000
High Wind5400
Thunderstorm Wind4800$43,000
Flash Flood4400$469,000
Winter Storm2500$500,000
Heavy Snow1700$60,000
Winter Weather1600
Wildfire1400$5,000
Dust Storm1200
Flood700$37,000
Ice Storm600
Blizzard500$50,000
Debris Flow200$25,000
Excessive Heat201
Heavy Rain100
Heat100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Briscoe County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Briscoe CountyEvery warning in Briscoe 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.