Texas

Storm History: Callahan County, Texas

403 episodes, 602 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Callahan 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
602
Deaths
7
Injuries
28
Damage
$84 million
Episodes
403

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
Tornado219511$9.9 million
Hail13101$2.1 million
Flash Flood7600$2.4 million
Drought6900$5.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2900$102,000
Winter Storm2100$20,000
Winter Weather1900
Wildfire10216$64 million
Heavy Snow900
Ice Storm700$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Cold/Wind Chill300$206,000
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Depression100
Blizzard100
Flood100

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 Callahan County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Callahan CountyEvery warning in Callahan 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.