Texas

Storm History: Hemphill County, Texas

425 episodes, 648 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hemphill 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
648
Deaths
5
Injuries
14
Damage
$534 million
Episodes
425

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
Hail19703$717,000
Tornado17115$3.5 million
Drought6100$137 million
High Wind4900
Wildfire2812$390 million
Flash Flood2300$405,000
Winter Storm1600
Winter Weather1600
Thunderstorm Wind1504$47,000
Cold/Wind Chill1500
Heavy Snow1110
Flood1020$12,000
Blizzard900$660,000
Ice Storm800$2.3 million
Dense Fog700
Dust Storm400
Freezing Fog300
Frost/Freeze200
Sleet100
Heavy Rain100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Hemphill County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hemphill CountyEvery warning in Hemphill 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.