Texas

Storm History: Starr County, Texas

435 episodes, 575 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Starr 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
575
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$152 million
Episodes
435

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
Drought21600$9.8 million
Hail8500$232,000
Flash Flood7303$13 million
Frost/Freeze5400
Tornado3000$268,000
Excessive Heat3000
Heat2300
Wildfire1500$405,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300$36,000
Flood1200$45 million
Cold/Wind Chill600$1.2 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm400
Hurricane (Typhoon)300$83 million
Heavy Rain300
High Wind100
Heavy Snow100
Astronomical Low Tide100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Starr County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Starr CountyEvery warning in Starr 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.