Texas

Storm History: Brown County, Texas

445 episodes, 809 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Brown 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
809
Deaths
4
Injuries
24
Damage
$70 million
Episodes
445

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
Tornado291013$10 million
Hail21906$978,000
Flash Flood13320$53 million
Drought7600$2.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind3111$357,000
Winter Storm1300$38,000
Heavy Snow800
Winter Weather800
Wildfire702$72,000
Ice Storm600$3,000
Flood612$5,000
High Wind300
Frost/Freeze300
Cold/Wind Chill200$3.7 million
Heavy Rain100
Blizzard100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Brown County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Brown CountyEvery warning in Brown 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.