Texas

Storm History: Clay County, Texas

465 episodes, 865 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clay 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
865
Deaths
1
Injuries
44
Damage
$7.9 million
Episodes
465

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
Hail33400$802,000
Tornado250144$6.8 million
Drought9500
Flash Flood4100$37,000
Thunderstorm Wind3500$186,000
Heat2800
Excessive Heat2700
High Wind800$4,000
Winter Weather700$10,000
Winter Storm700$10,000
Heavy Snow600
Wildfire600$50,000
Ice Storm500$25,000
Dense Fog400
Cold/Wind Chill400
Flood200
Frost/Freeze200
Lightning100$10
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Blizzard100

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 Clay County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clay CountyEvery warning in Clay 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.