Texas

Storm History: Leon County, Texas

307 episodes, 431 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Leon 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
431
Deaths
1
Injuries
6
Damage
$114 million
Episodes
307

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
Tornado11304$6.7 million
Drought7400$101 million
Hail7300$1.2 million
Flash Flood6800$841,000
Heat2900
Excessive Heat2000
Thunderstorm Wind1500$172,000
Winter Storm1110$79,000
Heavy Rain500
Ice Storm400
Winter Weather300
Heavy Snow300$15,000
Wildfire300$3.3 million
Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$70,000
Flood202$82,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Storm100$150,000

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 Leon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Leon CountyEvery warning in Leon 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.