Texas

Storm History: King County, Texas

339 episodes, 400 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in King 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
400
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$6.9 million
Episodes
339

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
Drought10600$4.7 million
Tornado9900$574,000
Hail7800$271,000
Thunderstorm Wind2400$132,000
High Wind1800$30,000
Flash Flood1700$35,000
Winter Storm1700
Heavy Snow1000
Wildfire800$1.1 million
Dust Storm800
Ice Storm500
Winter Weather300
Blizzard300
Flood100
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 King County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in King CountyEvery warning in King 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.