Texas

Storm History: Donley County, Texas

465 episodes, 811 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Donley 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
811
Deaths
17
Injuries
51
Damage
$135 million
Episodes
465

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
Tornado2691646$9.0 million
Hail25400$243,000
Drought5700$116 million
High Wind4100$6,000
Flash Flood3600$368,000
Thunderstorm Wind2500$220,000
Wildfire2503$40,000
Flood2100$50,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Winter Storm1200$8.5 million
Winter Weather1200
Dense Fog1000
Heavy Snow800
Blizzard700$660,000
Heavy Rain512
Ice Storm400
Dust Storm300
Freezing Fog300
Frost/Freeze200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Sleet100

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 Donley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Donley CountyEvery warning in Donley 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.