Texas

Storm History: Lamb County, Texas

603 episodes, 836 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lamb 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
836
Deaths
3
Injuries
11
Damage
$92 million
Episodes
603

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
Tornado23609$22 million
Hail17721$27 million
Drought9700$1.2 million
Thunderstorm Wind8001$812,000
High Wind6000$125,000
Flash Flood3700$34 million
Wildfire2800$150,000
Winter Storm2500$200,000
Heavy Snow2300$50,000
Flood2300$5.1 million
Dust Storm1900$135,000
Winter Weather1400$100,000
Ice Storm700$50,000
Blizzard400$1.0 million
Heavy Rain200
Lightning100$60,000
Heat100
Dense Fog110$30,000
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 Lamb County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lamb CountyEvery warning in Lamb 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.