Texas

Storm History: Liberty County, Texas

278 episodes, 420 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Liberty 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
420
Deaths
3
Injuries
42
Damage
$1.4 billion
Episodes
278

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
Tornado180139$1.1 billion
Hail8803$406,000
Flash Flood4600$1.6 million
Thunderstorm Wind3700$194,000
Drought2100$8.3 million
Excessive Heat1200
Heat1000$13,000
Flood700$17,000
Winter Storm500
Tropical Storm400$7.7 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)420$227 million
Ice Storm300$2,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200$30,000
Heavy Snow100

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 Liberty County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Liberty CountyEvery warning in Liberty 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.