Texas

Storm History: Gillespie County, Texas

381 episodes, 568 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gillespie 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
568
Deaths
4
Injuries
14
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
381

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 Flood14449$1.2 million
Hail13400$5.3 million
Tornado11605$3.7 million
Drought10100
Winter Storm2300$502,000
Winter Weather1600
Thunderstorm Wind1200$380,000
Wildfire500$400,000
Excessive Heat400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill400
Ice Storm400
Flood300
Heavy Snow100$100,000
Tropical Storm100

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 Gillespie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gillespie CountyEvery warning in Gillespie 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.