Texas

Storm History: Gregg County, Texas

563 episodes, 811 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Gregg 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
811
Deaths
7
Injuries
12
Damage
$47 million
Episodes
563

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
Tornado21605$36 million
Hail21233$1.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind10101$1.1 million
Flash Flood9500$3.5 million
Heat5900
Drought4400
Excessive Heat2200
Flood1300$140,000
Winter Weather1300
Winter Storm1200$413,000
Ice Storm611$20,000
Cold/Wind Chill600$250,000
Lightning200$15,000
Strong Wind200$30,000
Wildfire222$2.4 million
Freezing Fog100
Funnel Cloud100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$1.0 million
Heavy Snow100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill110
High Wind100

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 Gregg County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Gregg CountyEvery warning in Gregg 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.