Texas

Storm History: Hopkins County, Texas

467 episodes, 689 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hopkins 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
689
Deaths
3
Injuries
17
Damage
$47 million
Episodes
467

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 Hopkins 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
Tornado276011$9.1 million
Hail12501$744,000
Flash Flood8010$29 million
Drought7300$2.2 million
Heat2900
Thunderstorm Wind2700$110,000
Excessive Heat2100
Winter Storm1610$3.2 million
Ice Storm811$2.2 million
Winter Weather600$10,000
Heavy Snow500$265,000
Heavy Rain500
Flood504$117,000
Wildfire400$67,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Blizzard200
Tropical Storm100$20,000
Lightning100
Strong Wind100$10,000
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 Hopkins County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hopkins CountyEvery warning in Hopkins 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.