Texas

Storm History: Newton County, Texas

222 episodes, 282 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newton 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
282
Deaths
2
Injuries
3
Damage
$357 million
Episodes
222

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
Thunderstorm Wind8900$454,000
Tornado6603$5.8 million
Hail5800$12,000
Flash Flood3800$3.4 million
Winter Storm600
Ice Storm600
Winter Weather400
Hurricane (Typhoon)400$214 million
Tropical Storm320$45 million
Flood300$88 million
Heat200
Drought200
Funnel Cloud100

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 Newton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Newton CountyEvery warning in Newton 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.