Texas

Storm History: Hartley County, Texas

583 episodes, 852 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hartley 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
852
Deaths
6
Injuries
9
Damage
$223 million
Episodes
583

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.

Open the live radar over Hartley County

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
Tornado19700$272,000
Hail18806$193,000
High Wind11900$60,000
Drought7000$219 million
Flash Flood6300$26,000
Thunderstorm Wind4500
Wildfire3600$2.8 million
Heavy Snow2400
Winter Weather2410$10,000
Cold/Wind Chill1900
Winter Storm1431
Blizzard1400$660,000
Dust Storm800$10,000
Flood800$6,000
Ice Storm600$21,000
Dense Fog600
Frost/Freeze400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Freezing Fog200
Strong Wind122$60,000
Heavy Rain100

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 Hartley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hartley CountyEvery warning in Hartley 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.