Texas

Storm History: La Salle County, Texas

275 episodes, 370 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in La Salle 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
370
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$4.3 million
Episodes
275

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
Drought10800$2.9 million
Hail5200$386,000
Tornado5005$700,000
Excessive Heat4800
Flash Flood4000$309,000
Thunderstorm Wind1700$5,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Wildfire900
Flood800$50,000
Heat800
Frost/Freeze500
Heavy Snow300
Ice Storm300
Winter Weather200
High Wind200
Hurricane (Typhoon)100

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 La Salle County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in La Salle CountyEvery warning in La Salle 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.