Texas

Storm History: El Paso County, Texas

401 episodes, 711 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in El Paso 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
711
Deaths
7
Injuries
44
Damage
$675 million
Episodes
401

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
Flash Flood22962$219 million
Drought17400
Hail120110$451 million
Thunderstorm Wind71027$603,000
High Wind6301$486,000
Tornado2203$3.0 million
Dust Storm1100$5,000
Heavy Rain600
Heavy Snow500$6,000
Flood401$130,000
Excessive Heat400
Lightning100$50,000
Strong Wind100$5,000

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 El Paso County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in El Paso CountyEvery warning in El Paso 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.