Texas

Storm History: Crosby County, Texas

502 episodes, 651 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crosby 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
651
Deaths
1
Injuries
12
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
502

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
Tornado20415$10 million
Hail12700$3.2 million
Drought9100$1.2 million
High Wind4900$110,000
Thunderstorm Wind3500$165,000
Flash Flood3500$156,000
Winter Storm2400
Heavy Snow1700
Dust Storm1500$1.0 million
Wildfire1300$200,000
Flood1200$2.0 million
Winter Weather900
Ice Storm807$675,000
Blizzard400
Heavy Rain200
Tropical Depression100
Heat100$100,000
Lightning100
Frost/Freeze100
Excessive Heat100
Dust Devil100

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 Crosby County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crosby CountyEvery warning in Crosby 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.