Texas

Storm History: San Jacinto County, Texas

200 episodes, 268 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in San Jacinto 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
268
Deaths
8
Injuries
10
Damage
$413 million
Episodes
200

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 San Jacinto 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
Tornado9479$359 million
Hail5500$302,000
Flash Flood4000$278,000
Thunderstorm Wind3401$191,000
Drought1400$8.3 million
Heat700
Excessive Heat600
Winter Storm500$15,000
Ice Storm400$1,000
Tropical Storm200$4.2 million
Flood200$6,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)210$40 million
Heavy Snow100
Funnel Cloud100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100$60,000

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 San Jacinto County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in San Jacinto CountyEvery warning in San Jacinto 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.