Texas

Storm History: Cochran County, Texas

405 episodes, 525 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cochran 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
525
Deaths
3
Injuries
20
Damage
$39 million
Episodes
405

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
Tornado118020$31 million
Drought9600$1.2 million
Hail8700$5.5 million
High Wind4500
Thunderstorm Wind4300$330,000
Flash Flood2500$35,000
Winter Storm2300$10,000
Wildfire2100$235,000
Heavy Snow1800
Flood1530$902,000
Dust Storm1300
Winter Weather800
Ice Storm600
Blizzard400$150,000
Heavy Rain100
Heat100$50,000
Frost/Freeze100

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 Cochran County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cochran CountyEvery warning in Cochran 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.