Texas

Storm History: Duval County, Texas

272 episodes, 373 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Duval 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
373
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
272

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
Drought10300$2.3 million
Tornado7700$928,000
Flash Flood6701$578,000
Hail5801$6.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind2000$360,000
Excessive Heat1710
Wildfire1600$50,000
Ice Storm500
Frost/Freeze300
Heavy Snow200
Winter Weather200
Dense Fog100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100
Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Duval County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Duval CountyEvery warning in Duval 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.