Texas

Storm History: Glasscock County, Texas

217 episodes, 321 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Glasscock 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
321
Deaths
1
Injuries
2
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
217

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
Tornado10112$584,000
Hail9900$2.7 million
Flash Flood6600$599,000
Drought1600$12 million
High Wind1100
Thunderstorm Wind700$31,000
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm400
Dust Storm400
Flood200
Blizzard200
Winter Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Glasscock County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Glasscock CountyEvery warning in Glasscock 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.