Texas

Storm History: Fort Bend County, Texas

313 episodes, 499 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fort Bend 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
499
Deaths
18
Injuries
90
Damage
$8.5 billion
Episodes
313

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
Tornado170577$8.0 billion
Hail12410$5.1 million
Flash Flood7410$2.7 million
Thunderstorm Wind6212$997,000
Drought1500$8.3 million
Funnel Cloud1200
Heat1010
Lightning520$115,000
Flood500$245,000
Excessive Heat510
Ice Storm400$2,000
Winter Storm400
Tropical Storm303$12 million
Heavy Snow200
Hurricane (Typhoon)238$400 million
Strong Wind100$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill130$1.6 million

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 Fort Bend County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fort Bend CountyEvery warning in Fort Bend 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.