Texas

Storm History: Knox County, Texas

411 episodes, 654 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Knox 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
654
Deaths
5
Injuries
6
Damage
$5.1 million
Episodes
411

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
Tornado21556$3.9 million
Hail17600$919,000
Drought10500
Flash Flood4800$119,000
Thunderstorm Wind4200$72,000
High Wind1200$10
Excessive Heat1200
Winter Storm800$5,000
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm500$25,000
Winter Weather400
Flood400$3,000
Heat400
Dense Fog300
Wildfire300
Cold/Wind Chill200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100
Blizzard100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Knox County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Knox CountyEvery warning in Knox 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.