Texas

Storm History: Lamar County, Texas

498 episodes, 765 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lamar 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
765
Deaths
12
Injuries
265
Damage
$70 million
Episodes
498

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
Tornado24511244$41 million
Hail19701$1.7 million
Flash Flood9400$2.0 million
Drought7500$2.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind4000$645,000
Heat2900
Excessive Heat23015
Winter Storm1710$1.7 million
Winter Weather805
Ice Storm800$20 million
Flood500$16,000
Heavy Rain500
Heavy Snow500$137,000
Wildfire400$400,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$1,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Strong Wind100$5,000
Tropical Storm100
High Wind100

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 Lamar County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lamar CountyEvery warning in Lamar 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.