Texas

Storm History: Hansford County, Texas

473 episodes, 755 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hansford 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
755
Deaths
0
Injuries
17
Damage
$188 million
Episodes
473

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
Tornado228017$8.0 million
Hail20700$222,000
Drought6300$177 million
High Wind6100$8,000
Flash Flood3300$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind2200$66,000
Winter Weather2000
Cold/Wind Chill1900
Winter Storm1800
Heavy Snow1800
Wildfire1300$28,000
Flood1100$5,000
Ice Storm900$2.8 million
Blizzard900$660,000
Dust Storm700
Dense Fog500
Heavy Rain400
Frost/Freeze400
Freezing Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Hansford County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hansford CountyEvery warning in Hansford 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.