Texas

Storm History: Motley County, Texas

441 episodes, 559 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Motley 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
559
Deaths
4
Injuries
18
Damage
$7.5 million
Episodes
441

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
Tornado151416$4.8 million
Hail11300$527,000
Drought10400$1.2 million
High Wind3700$55,000
Thunderstorm Wind3501$32,000
Winter Storm2300$60,000
Heavy Snow1600
Flash Flood1600$80,000
Wildfire1401$350,000
Dust Storm1300
Winter Weather1000
Flood900$40,000
Ice Storm800$420,000
Blizzard500
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Heat100

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 Motley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Motley CountyEvery warning in Motley 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.