Texas

Storm History: Maverick County, Texas

264 episodes, 333 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Maverick 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
333
Deaths
14
Injuries
5
Damage
$89 million
Episodes
264

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
Drought9800
Flash Flood7833$6.5 million
Hail6800$340,000
Tornado5972$81 million
Thunderstorm Wind1000$52,000
Winter Storm400
Heat440
Wildfire300
Excessive Heat300
Flood200$1.0 million
Winter Weather100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100

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 Maverick County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Maverick CountyEvery warning in Maverick 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.