Texas

Storm History: Cottle County, Texas

426 episodes, 586 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cottle 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
586
Deaths
2
Injuries
26
Damage
$8.9 million
Episodes
426

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
Tornado167114$4.9 million
Hail14700$1.3 million
Drought10400$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind2900$155,000
Flash Flood2800$660,000
High Wind2500$10,000
Winter Storm1600
Heavy Snow1500
Dust Storm1300$100,000
Wildfire1000$165,000
Winter Weather8111$30,000
Flood800$1,000
Ice Storm701$350,000
Blizzard500$20,000
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Heat100
Dense Fog100

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 Cottle County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cottle CountyEvery warning in Cottle 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.