Texas

Storm History: Marion County, Texas

385 episodes, 464 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Marion 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
464
Deaths
1
Injuries
12
Damage
$7.1 million
Episodes
385

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
Tornado11405$5.0 million
Hail9917$340,000
Heat6100
Thunderstorm Wind6000$183,000
Drought5100
Excessive Heat2400
Winter Weather1400
Flash Flood1100$250,000
Winter Storm1100
Cold/Wind Chill600$50,000
Ice Storm500
Flood400$400,000
Freezing Fog100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$750,000
Heavy Snow100
Wildfire100$200,000

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 Marion County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Marion CountyEvery warning in Marion 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.