Texas

Storm History: Shelby County, Texas

521 episodes, 665 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Shelby 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
665
Deaths
4
Injuries
74
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
521

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
Tornado183373$5.7 million
Hail16000$58,000
Thunderstorm Wind8700$8.4 million
Heat6400
Flash Flood6011$2,000
Drought4600
Excessive Heat2000
Winter Weather1500
Lightning600$119,000
Cold/Wind Chill600$75,000
Winter Storm600$30,000
Flood500$60,000
Ice Storm300
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$400,000
Heavy Rain100
Heavy Snow100

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 Shelby County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Shelby CountyEvery warning in Shelby 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.