Texas

Storm History: Lynn County, Texas

521 episodes, 712 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lynn 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
712
Deaths
0
Injuries
32
Damage
$316 million
Episodes
521

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
Tornado20804$29 million
Hail15000$19 million
Drought9700$1.2 million
Flash Flood6401$260 million
High Wind3903$304,000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$204,000
Winter Storm2400$20,000
Flood2100$3.8 million
Heavy Snow1700$10,000
Dust Storm1700$1.8 million
Wildfire1200$45,000
Winter Weather801
Ice Storm7023$150,000
Blizzard400$500,000
Heavy Rain200
Funnel Cloud200
Heat100$100,000
Lightning100
Frost/Freeze100
Debris Flow100

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 Lynn County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lynn CountyEvery warning in Lynn 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.