Texas

Storm History: Potter County, Texas

912 episodes, 1,986 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Potter 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
1,986
Deaths
15
Injuries
167
Damage
$657 million
Episodes
912

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
Hail59200$1.6 million
Tornado54507$472 million
Flash Flood22421$12 million
High Wind17600$613,000
Thunderstorm Wind10600$362,000
Drought6900$152 million
Wildfire6704$14 million
Flood5000$165,000
Winter Weather339155$2.9 million
Winter Storm2000$10,000
Heavy Snow1810$200,000
Cold/Wind Chill1600
Heavy Rain1500
Dust Storm1400
Dense Fog1200
Ice Storm1000
Blizzard1010$1.5 million
Frost/Freeze300
Freezing Fog200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill220
Sleet100
Dust Devil100$23,000

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 Potter County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Potter CountyEvery warning in Potter 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.