Texas

Storm History: Chambers County, Texas

216 episodes, 279 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chambers 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
279
Deaths
7
Injuries
10
Damage
$402 million
Episodes
216

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
Tornado10949$83 million
Hail5400$340,000
Flash Flood2800$229,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$631,000
Drought1700$8.3 million
Tropical Storm1000$645,000
Heat810
Funnel Cloud600
Hurricane (Typhoon)500$309 million
Flood400$11,000
Excessive Heat400
Coastal Flood300$125,000
Lightning221
Heavy Snow200
Waterspout100
Ice Storm100
Winter Storm100

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 Chambers County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Chambers CountyEvery warning in Chambers 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.