Storm History: Motley County, Texas
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 151 | 4 | 16 | $4.8 million |
| Hail | 113 | 0 | 0 | $527,000 |
| Drought | 104 | 0 | 0 | $1.2 million |
| High Wind | 37 | 0 | 0 | $55,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 35 | 0 | 1 | $32,000 |
| Winter Storm | 23 | 0 | 0 | $60,000 |
| Heavy Snow | 16 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 16 | 0 | 0 | $80,000 |
| Wildfire | 14 | 0 | 1 | $350,000 |
| Dust Storm | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 10 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 9 | 0 | 0 | $40,000 |
| Ice Storm | 8 | 0 | 0 | $420,000 |
| Blizzard | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Depression | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, May 1, 1984
- Tornado, June 4, 2002
- Drought, May 1, 1996
- Drought, June 1, 1996
- Ice Storm, November 26, 2015
- Tornado, August 12, 2004
- Tornado, May 10, 2002
- Wildfire, February 27, 2011
- Hail, June 12, 2004
- Tornado, April 22, 2015
- Tornado, June 5, 2001
- Tornado, May 25, 1999
- Hail, July 1, 2004
- Tornado, April 22, 2010
- Wildfire, July 13, 2016
- Hail, October 7, 1996
- Wildfire, January 12, 2006
- Hail, June 14, 2009
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2019
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Tornado, May 25, 2025
- Tornado, April 24, 2025
- Hail, May 8, 2015
- Hail, July 1, 2004
- Hail, May 17, 2001
- Hail, May 6, 1996
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2005
- Hail, May 31, 2005
- Tornado, May 10, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 9, 2005
- Tornado, May 3, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2022
- Hail, April 29, 2000
- Tornado, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, May 1, 2024
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, June 21, 2023
- Tornado, May 4, 1960
- Tornado, May 24, 1960
- Tornado, May 16, 1982
- Tornado, May 1, 1984
- Tornado, May 17, 1989
- Tornado, May 14, 1990
- Tornado, May 31, 1990
- Tornado, May 7, 1995
- Tornado, April 22, 2010
- Tornado, May 23, 2016
- Tornado, June 16, 1955
- Tornado, April 22, 1957
- Tornado, May 3, 1961
- Tornado, May 20, 1962
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, May 23, 2026
- Tornado, May 22, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 14, 2026
- High Wind, March 15, 2026
- Wildfire, February 17, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Hail, June 8, 2025
- Tornado, June 6, 2025
- Tornado, June 5, 2025
- Tornado, May 25, 2025
- Tornado, April 30, 2025
- Tornado, April 24, 2025
- Heavy Snow, April 5, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 18, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 14, 2025
- Heavy Snow, March 8, 2025
- Dust Storm, March 4, 2025
- Heavy Snow, January 9, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 15, 2024
- High Wind, May 22, 2024
- Tornado, May 3, 2024
- Tornado, May 1, 2024
- Hail, April 15, 2024
- High Wind, March 24, 2024
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2024
- Blizzard, January 8, 2024
- Hail, October 4, 2023
- Hail, September 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2023
- Tornado, June 21, 2023
- Tornado, May 28, 2023
- Flash Flood, May 23, 2023
- Hail, May 22, 2023
- High Wind, April 19, 2023
- Wildfire, April 4, 2023
- High Wind, March 31, 2023
- Dust Storm, February 26, 2023
- High Wind, February 14, 2023
- Heavy Snow, January 24, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 8, 2022
- Hail, June 1, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- Flash Flood, May 31, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 17, 2022
- Hail, May 16, 2022
- Flood, May 10, 2022
- Tornado, May 4, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- Hail, April 22, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- High Wind, March 21, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- High Wind, February 21, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Drought, February 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 26, 2022
- High Wind, January 14, 2022
- High Wind, January 1, 2022
- Drought, January 1, 2022
- Drought, December 21, 2021
- High Wind, December 10, 2021
- Hail, May 28, 2021
- Tornado, May 17, 2021
- Tornado, March 22, 2021
- High Wind, March 17, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Drought, February 1, 2021
- Dust Storm, January 30, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2020
- Ice Storm, October 25, 2020
- Drought, October 1, 2020
- Hail, August 16, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 2, 2020
- Drought, August 1, 2020
- Excessive Heat, July 9, 2020
- Drought, July 1, 2020
- Hail, May 15, 2020
- Winter Storm, April 13, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2020
- High Wind, November 30, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 22, 2019
- Hail, July 8, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2019
- Hail, June 18, 2019
- Tornado, June 15, 2019
- Hail, June 5, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2019
- High Wind, March 13, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 9, 2019
- High Wind, February 23, 2019
- Tornado, December 26, 2018
- High Wind, December 13, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 7, 2018
- Drought, September 1, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Drought, July 1, 2018
- Drought, June 1, 2018
- Hail, May 17, 2018
- Hail, May 15, 2018
- Hail, May 14, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2018
- Drought, May 1, 2018
- Hail, April 30, 2018
- Drought, April 1, 2018
- High Wind, March 18, 2018
- Drought, March 1, 2018
- Wildfire, January 25, 2018
- Drought, January 1, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 6, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 16, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 2017
- Excessive Heat, June 17, 2017
- Flash Flood, June 15, 2017
- Tornado, May 10, 2017
- Tornado, March 28, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2016
- Wildfire, July 13, 2016
- Hail, July 8, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 2, 2016
- Tornado, May 23, 2016
- Blizzard, December 26, 2015
- Ice Storm, November 26, 2015
- Hail, May 8, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 24, 2015
- Tornado, April 22, 2015
- Hail, April 16, 2015
- Hail, April 8, 2015
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2015
- Drought, March 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, February 27, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 22, 2015
- Drought, February 1, 2015
- Heavy Snow, January 21, 2015
- Ice Storm, January 2, 2015
- Drought, January 1, 2015
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2014
- Drought, December 1, 2014
- Heavy Snow, November 16, 2014
- Drought, November 1, 2014
- Drought, October 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, September 18, 2014
- Drought, September 1, 2014
- Hail, August 28, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 8, 2014
- Drought, August 1, 2014
- Drought, July 1, 2014
- Flood, June 7, 2014
- Drought, June 1, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Hail, April 23, 2014
- Drought, April 1, 2014
- Drought, March 1, 2014
- Heavy Snow, February 2, 2014
- Drought, February 1, 2014
- Drought, January 1, 2014
- Ice Storm, December 5, 2013
- Drought, December 1, 2013
- Ice Storm, November 22, 2013
- Drought, November 1, 2013
- Drought, October 1, 2013
- Drought, September 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 11, 2013
- Drought, August 1, 2013
- Drought, July 1, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 19, 2013
- Hail, June 16, 2013
- Drought, June 1, 2013
- Hail, May 27, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- High Wind, April 22, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Tornado, April 1, 2013
- Blizzard, February 24, 2013
- Heavy Snow, February 12, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Dust Storm, December 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 14, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, September 5, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Wildfire, July 25, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Flood, June 14, 2012
- Flood, June 12, 2012
- Flood, June 6, 2012
- Drought, June 1, 2012
- Drought, May 1, 2012
- Hail, April 30, 2012
- Hail, April 19, 2012
- Drought, April 1, 2012
- Drought, March 1, 2012
- Dust Storm, February 20, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 12, 2012
- Drought, February 1, 2012
- Dust Storm, January 22, 2012
- Drought, January 1, 2012
- Winter Storm, December 23, 2011
- Drought, December 1, 2011
- High Wind, November 26, 2011
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Wildfire, June 11, 2011
- Drought, June 1, 2011
- Hail, May 31, 2011
- Hail, May 30, 2011
- Drought, May 1, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Wildfire, April 16, 2011
- High Wind, April 14, 2011
- Drought, April 1, 2011
- Wildfire, March 10, 2011
- Drought, March 8, 2011
- Wildfire, February 27, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 8, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 6, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Hail, October 21, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 9, 2010
- Hail, June 10, 2010
- Hail, June 1, 2010
- Hail, May 24, 2010
- High Wind, April 23, 2010
- Tornado, April 22, 2010
- Flood, April 15, 2010
- Winter Storm, March 19, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 8, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 22, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 11, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Blizzard, December 23, 2009
- High Wind, December 7, 2009
- Dust Storm, June 18, 2009
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.