Texas

Storm History: Jones County, Texas

505 episodes, 886 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jones 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
886
Deaths
3
Injuries
26
Damage
$81 million
Episodes
505

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
Tornado363125$5.2 million
Hail22900$2.2 million
Flash Flood10720$32 million
Drought7900$40 million
Thunderstorm Wind3100$371,000
Winter Storm2100$7,000
Winter Weather1600
Heavy Snow900
Ice Storm700$1,000
Wildfire601$502,000
Flood500
High Wind300$20,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300$208,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Depression100
Blizzard100

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 Jones County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jones CountyEvery warning in Jones 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.