Texas

Storm History: Childress County, Texas

525 episodes, 687 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Childress 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
687
Deaths
2
Injuries
13
Damage
$52 million
Episodes
525

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.

Open the live radar over Childress County

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
Tornado17802$9.7 million
Hail16106$24 million
Drought10500$11 million
Thunderstorm Wind6800$841,000
High Wind3700$64,000
Flash Flood2803$4.0 million
Winter Storm2300$1.0 million
Flood1800$375,000
Heavy Snow1500
Winter Weather1400$10,000
Wildfire1200
Dust Storm1022$85,000
Ice Storm700$100,000
Blizzard500$500,000
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Heat100
Dense Fog100
Strong Wind100$50,000
Lightning100$5,000

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 Childress County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Childress CountyEvery warning in Childress 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.