Texas

Storm History: Brooks County, Texas

368 episodes, 458 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brooks 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
458
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$9.9 million
Episodes
368

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
Drought19500
Frost/Freeze6610
Excessive Heat3400
Hail3000$6.0 million
Wildfire2801$2.1 million
Tornado2502$30,000
Heat2000
Flash Flood1800$412,000
Thunderstorm Wind1400$35,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1000
Ice Storm600
Flood200$1.2 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)200
Tropical Storm200$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill210
Heavy Rain100
High Wind100
Heavy Snow100
Winter Weather100

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 Brooks County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brooks CountyEvery warning in Brooks 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.