Texas

Storm History: Lipscomb County, Texas

495 episodes, 773 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lipscomb 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
773
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$195 million
Episodes
495

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
Hail27600$652,000
Tornado20500$1.4 million
Drought6100$190 million
Flash Flood3603$176,000
High Wind3500$38,000
Wildfire3000$227,000
Thunderstorm Wind2800$37,000
Winter Storm1900
Cold/Wind Chill1700
Winter Weather1600
Heavy Snow1300
Ice Storm800$2.2 million
Dense Fog800
Blizzard700$660,000
Flood500$239,000
Freezing Fog300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200$25,000
Frost/Freeze200
Sleet100
Dust Storm100

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 Lipscomb County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lipscomb CountyEvery warning in Lipscomb 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.