Texas

Storm History: Kent County, Texas

307 episodes, 395 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kent 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
395
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$8.4 million
Episodes
307

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 Kent 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
Tornado10500$999,000
Hail10100$780,000
Drought9500$5.2 million
Flash Flood1800$160,000
Winter Storm1400
Thunderstorm Wind1300$5,000
Heavy Snow1300
High Wind700
Dust Storm700
Wildfire500$1.0 million
Flood500$300,000
Ice Storm400
Blizzard300
Winter Weather200
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Heat100

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 Kent County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kent CountyEvery warning in Kent 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.