Texas

Storm History: Jeff Davis County, Texas

170 episodes, 247 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jeff Davis 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
247
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
170

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
Hail6600$71,000
Flash Flood6300$1.3 million
High Wind5100
Tornado4300$12,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300$31,000
Heavy Snow400
Excessive Heat300
Blizzard100
Strong Wind100
Dust Storm100
Winter Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Jeff Davis County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Jeff Davis CountyEvery warning in Jeff Davis 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.