Texas

Storm History: Ochiltree County, Texas

507 episodes, 828 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ochiltree 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
828
Deaths
6
Injuries
134
Damage
$240 million
Episodes
507

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
Tornado2845131$11 million
Hail23700$1.3 million
Drought5200$195 million
High Wind4800
Flash Flood4000$578,000
Thunderstorm Wind3400$617,000
Winter Weather2000
Cold/Wind Chill2000
Winter Storm1800
Heavy Snow1600$50,000
Wildfire1513$25 million
Ice Storm800$5.7 million
Flood800$12,000
Dense Fog800
Blizzard700$660,000
Dust Storm400
Freezing Fog300
Heavy Rain200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Frost/Freeze200

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 Ochiltree County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Ochiltree CountyEvery warning in Ochiltree 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.