Texas

Storm History: Runnels County, Texas

397 episodes, 641 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Runnels 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
641
Deaths
2
Injuries
6
Damage
$50 million
Episodes
397

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.

Open the live radar over Runnels County

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
Tornado27406$25 million
Hail14700$74,000
Flash Flood7410$446,000
Drought6300$8.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind2800$390,000
Winter Storm1700$30,000
Heavy Snow900
Winter Weather910$7,000
Flood700
Ice Storm500$3,000
Wildfire200$2,000
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind100$2,000
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100
Cold/Wind Chill100$17 million

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 Runnels County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Runnels CountyEvery warning in Runnels 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.