Texas

Storm History: Live Oak County, Texas

309 episodes, 444 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Live Oak 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
444
Deaths
3
Injuries
8
Damage
$7.6 million
Episodes
309

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
Tornado12304$1.1 million
Drought11100$3.4 million
Hail6100$310,000
Flash Flood4300$147,000
Thunderstorm Wind2000$334,000
Excessive Heat1800
Flood1200$125,000
Cold/Wind Chill1210$715,000
Frost/Freeze900
Hurricane (Typhoon)700$25,000
Wildfire600$1.3 million
Ice Storm611$65,000
Heat600
Heavy Snow300
Dense Fog202
Winter Weather211
Funnel Cloud100
Lightning100$15,000
Tropical Storm100$100,000

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 Live Oak County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Live Oak CountyEvery warning in Live Oak 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.