Texas

Storm History: Culberson County, Texas

395 episodes, 624 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Culberson 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
624
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$591,000
Episodes
395

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
High Wind44600
Hail4900$18,000
Thunderstorm Wind4601$105,000
Flash Flood4000$167,000
Tornado2400$300,000
Dust Storm800
Excessive Heat300
Flood200$1,000
Blizzard200
Heavy Snow200
Heavy Rain100
Winter Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Culberson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Culberson CountyEvery warning in Culberson 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.