Texas

Storm History: Haskell County, Texas

456 episodes, 740 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Haskell 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
740
Deaths
14
Injuries
35
Damage
$22 million
Episodes
456

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 Haskell 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
Tornado3011329$8.3 million
Hail15602$257,000
Drought8200$10 million
Flash Flood7700$3.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind3812$152,000
Winter Storm2700$7,000
Winter Weather1400
Wildfire702$2,000
Ice Storm700$1,000
Heavy Snow700
Cold/Wind Chill400$113,000
Heat400
High Wind400
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300$113,000
Flood200
Frost/Freeze200
Lightning100
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Blizzard100
Dust Storm100

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 Haskell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Haskell CountyEvery warning in Haskell 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.