Texas

Storm History: Colorado County, Texas

192 episodes, 277 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Colorado 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
277
Deaths
1
Injuries
25
Damage
$40 million
Episodes
192

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 Colorado 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
Tornado103120$29 million
Hail6200$775,000
Flash Flood4101$517,000
Thunderstorm Wind1700$167,000
Drought1500$8.3 million
Heat1104$188,000
Ice Storm700$53,000
Funnel Cloud600
Excessive Heat500
High Wind200$60,000
Tropical Storm200$25,000
Flood200
Winter Storm200
Winter Weather100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100$305,000

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 Colorado County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Colorado CountyEvery warning in Colorado 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.