Texas

Storm History: Gray County, Texas

631 episodes, 1,179 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gray 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
1,179
Deaths
19
Injuries
97
Damage
$184 million
Episodes
631

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
Tornado360272$44 million
Hail34402$1.2 million
High Wind12200$25,000
Thunderstorm Wind6900$296,000
Drought6100$100 million
Flash Flood5700$49,000
Wildfire34159$39 million
Flood2700
Cold/Wind Chill1800
Winter Storm1700$20,000
Winter Weather17113$400,000
Heavy Snow1301$30,000
Blizzard800$660,000
Dense Fog800
Dust Storm700
Ice Storm500
Freezing Fog400
Heavy Rain300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Lightning110
Sleet100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Gray County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gray CountyEvery warning in Gray 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.