Texas

Storm History: Dallam County, Texas

462 episodes, 652 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dallam 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
652
Deaths
2
Injuries
5
Damage
$274 million
Episodes
462

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 Dallam 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
Hail14700$2.1 million
Tornado14303$560,000
High Wind6800$5,000
Drought6800$270 million
Thunderstorm Wind3000$80,000
Winter Weather2912
Heavy Snow2800
Flash Flood2800$485,000
Wildfire2300$369,000
Winter Storm1800$200,000
Cold/Wind Chill1800
Blizzard1700$660,000
Flood900$10,000
Ice Storm600$6,000
Dense Fog610
Dust Storm500$50,000
Frost/Freeze400
Freezing Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
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 Dallam County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Dallam CountyEvery warning in Dallam 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.