Texas

Storm History: Pecos County, Texas

514 episodes, 1,061 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pecos 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
1,061
Deaths
2
Injuries
27
Damage
$55 million
Episodes
514

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
Tornado361226$37 million
Hail31200$12 million
Flash Flood28700$2.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind4001$571,000
High Wind2100$1.0 million
Drought1700$1.2 million
Heavy Snow600
Ice Storm500
Dust Storm400$100,000
Winter Storm300
Wildfire200
Dense Fog100$25,000
Winter Weather100
Blizzard100

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 Pecos County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pecos CountyEvery warning in Pecos 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.