Texas

Storm History: Irion County, Texas

243 episodes, 308 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Irion 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
308
Deaths
2
Injuries
7
Damage
$16 million
Episodes
243

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
Tornado7501$2.0 million
Drought5700$3.2 million
Hail5603
Flash Flood5301$602,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300$10 million
Winter Storm1200$3,000
Winter Weather1021
Wildfire801$1,000
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm600$1,000
Flood300$53,000
High Wind200
Frost/Freeze200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Depression100
Cold/Wind Chill100$29,000

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 Irion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Irion CountyEvery warning in Irion 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.