Texas

Storm History: Moore County, Texas

618 episodes, 993 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Moore 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
993
Deaths
7
Injuries
34
Damage
$240 million
Episodes
618

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
Tornado288016$30 million
Hail26100$950,000
High Wind12200$335,000
Drought6400$208 million
Flash Flood6401$390,000
Thunderstorm Wind3502$40,000
Wildfire3014$171,000
Cold/Wind Chill2000
Winter Weather1958$51,000
Heavy Snow1700
Winter Storm1600
Blizzard1200$660,000
Ice Storm1103$138,000
Dust Storm1000
Flood900$200,000
Dense Fog600
Heavy Rain200
Freezing Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200$34,000
Frost/Freeze200
Strong Wind110$36,000

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 Moore County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Moore CountyEvery warning in Moore 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.