Storm History: Orange County, Texas

275 episodes, 337 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Orange 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: 337
Deaths: 13
Injuries: 86
Damage: $1.6 billion
Episodes: 275

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Thunderstorm Wind	82	1	1	$1.2 million
Tornado	79	1	84	$16 million
Hail	78	0	0	$24,000
Flash Flood	71	1	0	$57 million
Flood	11	0	0	$7.8 million
Tropical Storm	4	10	0	$1.5 billion
Heavy Rain	2	0	0	$45,000
Lightning	2	0	1	$11,000
Heat	2	0	0
Drought	2	0	0
Winter Storm	2	0	0
Hurricane (Typhoon)	1	0	0	$10,000
Funnel Cloud	1	0	0

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 Orange County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Orange County Every warning in Orange County since 1986 Every 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.