Texas

Storm History: Palo Pinto County, Texas

557 episodes, 907 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Palo Pinto 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
907
Deaths
4
Injuries
26
Damage
$55 million
Episodes
557

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
Tornado387121$16 million
Hail18000$493,000
Flash Flood10100$1.3 million
Drought8200$1.2 million
Heat2700
Excessive Heat2600
Thunderstorm Wind2200$78,000
Wildfire2113$34 million
Winter Storm1912$82,000
Flood1210$73,000
Ice Storm700$615,000
Winter Weather500
Cold/Wind Chill400
Heavy Snow400$600,000
Heavy Rain300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning200$3,000
High Wind100$5,000
Sleet100

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 Palo Pinto County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Palo Pinto CountyEvery warning in Palo Pinto 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.