Texas

Storm History: Jefferson County, Texas

492 episodes, 700 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jefferson 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
700
Deaths
17
Injuries
168
Damage
$3.4 billion
Episodes
492

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
Tornado2573154$58 million
Hail12900$131,000
Thunderstorm Wind12124$3.2 million
Flash Flood12150$316 million
Astronomical Low Tide3100
Lightning1129$401,000
Funnel Cloud800
Flood700$45,000
Tropical Storm451$3.0 billion
Heat200
Drought200
Coastal Flood200$1,000
Winter Storm200
Wildfire100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$50,000
Storm Surge/Tide100

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 Jefferson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jefferson CountyEvery warning in Jefferson 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.