Texas

Storm History: Comal County, Texas

423 episodes, 571 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Comal 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
571
Deaths
9
Injuries
929
Damage
$281 million
Episodes
423

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
Flash Flood1505820$64 million
Hail13809$859,000
Tornado11210$6.6 million
Drought9300
Thunderstorm Wind2100$285,000
Winter Storm1910$565,000
Winter Weather1300
Flood80100$209 million
Excessive Heat700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Heat220
Tropical Storm200$1.0 million
Ice Storm100

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 Comal County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Comal CountyEvery warning in Comal 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.