Storm History: Chambers County, Texas
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 109 | 4 | 9 | $83 million |
| Hail | 54 | 0 | 0 | $340,000 |
| Flash Flood | 28 | 0 | 0 | $229,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 24 | 0 | 0 | $631,000 |
| Drought | 17 | 0 | 0 | $8.3 million |
| Tropical Storm | 10 | 0 | 0 | $645,000 |
| Heat | 8 | 1 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 5 | 0 | 0 | $309 million |
| Flood | 4 | 0 | 0 | $11,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Coastal Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | $125,000 |
| Lightning | 2 | 2 | 1 | |
| Heavy Snow | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Waterspout | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2008
- Tornado, September 18, 2019
- Drought, August 1, 1998
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 23, 2005
- Tornado, August 25, 2017
- Tropical Storm, June 5, 2001
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2007
- Tornado, November 16, 2003
- Tornado, June 5, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2000
- Tornado, May 20, 1983
- Tornado, October 28, 1974
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 3, 2000
- Tornado, April 3, 2000
- Coastal Flood, November 16, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 3, 1997
- Tornado, May 18, 1993
- Tornado, November 16, 1993
- Flash Flood, September 27, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 1997
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, November 21, 1992
- Tornado, May 27, 1969
- Tornado, October 28, 1974
- Tornado, January 24, 2023
- Tornado, December 28, 2024
- Tornado, March 9, 1971
- Tornado, March 23, 1973
- Tornado, April 23, 1981
- Tornado, May 16, 1981
- Tornado, June 5, 1981
- Tornado, March 4, 1983
- Tornado, May 20, 1983
- Tornado, January 14, 1991
- Tornado, October 18, 1998
- Tornado, November 16, 2003
Every episode, newest first
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2025
- Tornado, December 28, 2024
- Tornado, May 16, 2024
- Hail, May 12, 2024
- Tornado, April 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, November 30, 2023
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Heat, September 5, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 23, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 5, 2023
- Drought, July 25, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 12, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 16, 2023
- Tornado, January 24, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- Drought, April 5, 2022
- Tornado, October 27, 2021
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 13, 2021
- Tropical Storm, October 8, 2020
- Funnel Cloud, July 27, 2020
- Hail, May 28, 2020
- Tornado, September 18, 2019
- Tornado, October 31, 2018
- Hail, August 10, 2018
- Hail, May 26, 2018
- Tornado, August 25, 2017
- Tropical Storm, June 21, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 11, 2017
- Tornado, March 29, 2017
- Flash Flood, December 3, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2016
- Hail, April 12, 2016
- Tropical Storm, June 15, 2015
- Hail, April 19, 2015
- Flash Flood, March 21, 2015
- Flood, May 21, 2013
- Tornado, February 18, 2013
- Tornado, August 21, 2012
- Funnel Cloud, August 17, 2012
- Hail, June 14, 2012
- Funnel Cloud, June 24, 2011
- Hail, June 6, 2011
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Lightning, June 24, 2010
- Heat, June 24, 2009
- Flash Flood, April 24, 2009
- Heavy Snow, December 10, 2008
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2008
- Tropical Storm, August 5, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 3, 2008
- Hail, February 12, 2008
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2007
- Tornado, July 6, 2007
- Tornado, July 3, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 15, 2007
- Tornado, October 16, 2006
- Tornado, July 8, 2006
- Flash Flood, May 29, 2006
- Tornado, April 29, 2006
- Hail, April 25, 2006
- Hail, April 24, 2006
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 23, 2005
- Heat, September 21, 2005
- Heavy Snow, December 24, 2004
- Tornado, November 23, 2004
- Tornado, November 23, 2004
- Tornado, November 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 25, 2004
- Tornado, June 23, 2004
- Tornado, April 10, 2004
- Tornado, November 16, 2003
- Tropical Storm, September 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2003
- Tropical Storm, August 30, 2003
- Hurricane (Typhoon), July 14, 2003
- Tornado, June 2, 2003
- Hail, April 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, March 13, 2003
- Tornado, December 23, 2002
- Flash Flood, December 4, 2002
- Flash Flood, November 5, 2002
- Hail, August 26, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 4, 2002
- Tornado, August 30, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2001
- Tropical Storm, June 5, 2001
- Hail, April 16, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 5, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 3, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 2, 2000
- Drought, September 1, 2000
- Heat, September 1, 2000
- Heat, August 29, 2000
- Lightning, August 24, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2000
- Drought, August 1, 2000
- Hail, July 23, 2000
- Heat, July 6, 2000
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2000
- Funnel Cloud, May 28, 2000
- Tornado, May 19, 2000
- Tornado, April 3, 2000
- Hail, April 2, 2000
- Hail, August 31, 1999
- Funnel Cloud, August 19, 1999
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Funnel Cloud, July 13, 1999
- Heat, June 26, 1999
- Tornado, May 2, 1999
- Tornado, October 18, 1998
- Tornado, October 6, 1998
- Flash Flood, September 14, 1998
- Tropical Storm, September 7, 1998
- Tropical Storm, August 21, 1998
- Hail, August 13, 1998
- Drought, August 1, 1998
- Hail, July 17, 1998
- Drought, July 1, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 6, 1998
- Drought, June 1, 1998
- Drought, May 1, 1998
- Tornado, February 10, 1998
- Hail, February 1, 1998
- Tornado, January 21, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 13, 1998
- Flash Flood, January 6, 1998
- Hail, December 23, 1997
- Flash Flood, December 7, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 3, 1997
- Hail, November 18, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 3, 1997
- Hail, September 9, 1997
- Hail, August 21, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 1997
- Tornado, May 21, 1997
- Coastal Flood, April 25, 1997
- Flash Flood, April 25, 1997
- Hail, April 11, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 27, 1997
- Flash Flood, January 27, 1997
- Ice Storm, January 12, 1997
- Coastal Flood, November 16, 1996
- Coastal Flood, October 5, 1996
- Flash Flood, September 27, 1996
- Waterspout, August 29, 1996
- Drought, June 1, 1996
- Hail, May 11, 1996
- Drought, May 1, 1996
- Drought, April 1, 1996
- Tornado, December 17, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 11, 1995
- Hail, July 29, 1995
- Hail, May 11, 1995
- Hail, May 8, 1995
- Tornado, April 20, 1995
- Hail, January 13, 1995
- Hail, August 9, 1994
- Tornado, May 28, 1994
- Hail, May 3, 1994
- Tornado, November 16, 1993
- Tornado, May 18, 1993
- Hail, April 5, 1993
- Tornado, November 21, 1992
- Tornado, June 30, 1992
- Tornado, May 28, 1992
- Tornado, April 19, 1992
- Tornado, March 18, 1992
- Hail, April 10, 1991
- Hail, March 1, 1991
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 15, 1991
- Tornado, January 14, 1991
- Hail, August 31, 1990
- Hail, April 26, 1990
- Tornado, April 14, 1990
- Tornado, October 15, 1989
- Hail, May 3, 1989
- Hail, June 3, 1988
- Tornado, November 16, 1987
- Hail, June 16, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 1986
- Tornado, May 17, 1986
- Tornado, May 20, 1983
- Tornado, March 4, 1983
- Tornado, July 14, 1982
- Tornado, September 2, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 10, 1981
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 1981
- Tornado, June 5, 1981
- Tornado, May 16, 1981
- Hail, May 14, 1981
- Tornado, April 23, 1981
- Hail, March 21, 1981
- Tornado, September 19, 1980
- Tornado, May 7, 1980
- Tornado, April 10, 1975
- Tornado, October 28, 1974
- Tornado, March 23, 1973
- Tornado, March 9, 1971
- Tornado, May 27, 1969
- Hail, May 26, 1968
- Hail, December 9, 1967
- Tornado, July 24, 1963
- Tornado, June 20, 1963
- Tornado, June 3, 1962
- Tornado, July 9, 1961
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 9, 1959
- Tornado, August 13, 1959
- Tornado, May 12, 1954
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.