Storm History: Sterling County, Texas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sterling 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
- 327
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Damage
- $1.6 million
- Episodes
- 239
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 116 | 0 | 0 | $71,000 |
| Drought | 61 | 0 | 0 | $1.5 million |
| Hail | 55 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flash Flood | 22 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | $3,000 |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 13 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 11 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 7 | 0 | 2 | $2,000 |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $1,000 |
| Flood | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Depression | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 |
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
- Tornado, May 25, 1955
- Tornado, April 10, 1979
- Tornado, June 1, 1995
- Tornado, April 23, 1973
- Tornado, April 17, 1976
- Tornado, May 12, 1982
- Tornado, June 6, 1989
- Tornado, May 21, 2024
- Tornado, October 15, 1960
- Tornado, May 13, 1985
- Tornado, May 14, 1989
- Tornado, May 15, 1989
- Tornado, May 29, 1990
- Tornado, May 3, 1999
- Tornado, March 4, 2004
Every episode, newest first
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, January 26, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 24, 2025
- Tornado, May 25, 2025
- Hail, April 28, 2025
- Tornado, April 19, 2025
- Hail, April 3, 2025
- Drought, April 1, 2025
- Drought, March 1, 2025
- Drought, August 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2024
- Hail, May 25, 2024
- Tornado, May 21, 2024
- Hail, May 16, 2024
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2023
- Drought, June 1, 2023
- Tornado, May 23, 2023
- Drought, May 1, 2023
- Drought, April 1, 2023
- Drought, March 1, 2023
- Drought, February 1, 2023
- Drought, January 1, 2023
- Drought, December 1, 2022
- Drought, November 1, 2022
- Drought, October 1, 2022
- Drought, September 1, 2022
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 1, 2022
- Drought, June 1, 2022
- Drought, May 1, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- Drought, February 1, 2022
- Drought, January 1, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 26, 2021
- Hail, May 25, 2021
- Tornado, May 16, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 13, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Winter Weather, February 9, 2021
- Heavy Snow, January 10, 2021
- Winter Storm, December 31, 2020
- Drought, December 1, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2020
- Ice Storm, October 26, 2020
- Drought, August 1, 2020
- Hail, May 20, 2020
- Heavy Snow, February 4, 2020
- Drought, November 1, 2019
- Tornado, June 23, 2019
- Flood, June 5, 2019
- Hail, April 13, 2019
- Winter Weather, January 2, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 14, 2018
- Hail, March 26, 2018
- Winter Storm, February 21, 2018
- Winter Weather, December 30, 2017
- Winter Weather, December 26, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2017
- Tornado, March 28, 2017
- Tornado, May 26, 2016
- Tornado, April 26, 2016
- Winter Storm, December 26, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 12, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 30, 2015
- Flash Flood, October 21, 2015
- Tornado, May 8, 2015
- Tornado, May 5, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 28, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2015
- Winter Storm, January 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, December 30, 2014
- Hail, October 10, 2014
- Tornado, June 11, 2014
- Tornado, May 23, 2014
- Hail, May 7, 2014
- Drought, May 1, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, April 15, 2014
- Drought, April 1, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2014
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2013
- Drought, December 1, 2013
- Drought, July 1, 2013
- Drought, June 1, 2013
- Drought, May 1, 2013
- Drought, April 1, 2013
- Drought, March 1, 2013
- Drought, February 1, 2013
- Heavy Snow, January 3, 2013
- Drought, January 1, 2013
- Tornado, April 7, 2012
- Drought, April 1, 2012
- Drought, March 1, 2012
- Winter Weather, February 12, 2012
- Drought, February 1, 2012
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2012
- Drought, January 1, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2011
- Drought, December 1, 2011
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Wildfire, July 19, 2011
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Hail, June 21, 2011
- Wildfire, June 16, 2011
- Drought, June 1, 2011
- Wildfire, May 17, 2011
- Drought, May 1, 2011
- Drought, April 1, 2011
- Drought, March 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Hail, June 2, 2010
- Hail, May 14, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2010
- Flash Flood, January 28, 2010
- Winter Weather, December 7, 2009
- Hail, October 8, 2009
- Hail, May 25, 2009
- Hail, April 26, 2009
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2009
- Drought, April 1, 2009
- Drought, March 1, 2009
- High Wind, February 10, 2009
- Drought, February 1, 2009
- Ice Storm, January 27, 2009
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2008
- Hail, April 26, 2008
- Hail, March 22, 2008
- Wildfire, February 25, 2008
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2008
- Winter Weather, January 23, 2008
- Heavy Snow, November 24, 2007
- Tropical Depression, August 16, 2007
- Flash Flood, August 1, 2007
- Tornado, May 2, 2007
- Flash Flood, April 29, 2007
- Winter Storm, April 6, 2007
- Hail, March 11, 2007
- Wildfire, February 24, 2007
- Winter Storm, January 16, 2007
- Ice Storm, January 12, 2007
- Drought, December 1, 2006
- Winter Storm, November 30, 2006
- Drought, November 1, 2006
- Hail, August 27, 2006
- Hail, May 24, 2006
- Tornado, May 4, 2006
- Hail, May 2, 2006
- Wildfire, January 1, 2006
- Flash Flood, August 13, 2005
- Hail, July 4, 2005
- Tornado, May 31, 2005
- Hail, February 27, 2005
- Winter Weather, December 22, 2004
- Hail, June 6, 2004
- Tornado, March 4, 2004
- Tornado, June 11, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2003
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2003
- Hail, May 9, 2003
- Tornado, April 29, 2003
- Hail, October 18, 2002
- Tornado, May 7, 2002
- Heavy Snow, January 1, 2002
- Heavy Snow, November 28, 2001
- Ice Storm, December 25, 2000
- Heavy Snow, November 7, 2000
- Drought, August 1, 2000
- Flash Flood, July 1, 2000
- Hail, May 19, 2000
- Drought, May 1, 2000
- Flood, March 24, 2000
- Tornado, March 22, 2000
- Tornado, May 31, 1999
- Hail, May 30, 1999
- Tornado, May 3, 1999
- Heavy Snow, December 11, 1998
- Hail, October 31, 1998
- Drought, August 1, 1998
- Drought, June 1, 1998
- Tornado, May 26, 1998
- Tornado, May 25, 1998
- Hail, May 15, 1998
- Tornado, June 14, 1997
- Tornado, May 8, 1997
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 23, 1996
- Hail, May 30, 1996
- Hail, May 29, 1996
- Hail, May 29, 1996
- Hail, May 10, 1996
- Hail, May 10, 1996
- Heavy Snow, April 5, 1996
- Ice Storm, February 1, 1996
- Hail, October 31, 1995
- Tornado, June 1, 1995
- Tornado, May 28, 1995
- Hail, April 3, 1995
- Tornado, March 25, 1995
- Tornado, March 12, 1995
- Tornado, June 9, 1994
- Tornado, May 11, 1994
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 1993
- Tornado, March 29, 1993
- Tornado, June 26, 1992
- Tornado, June 8, 1992
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 10, 1991
- Tornado, March 21, 1991
- Hail, June 3, 1990
- Tornado, May 29, 1990
- Tornado, June 10, 1989
- Tornado, June 6, 1989
- Tornado, May 15, 1989
- Tornado, May 14, 1989
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 14, 1987
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 30, 1987
- Hail, June 21, 1987
- Tornado, June 16, 1986
- Tornado, May 13, 1985
- Tornado, June 26, 1982
- Tornado, June 11, 1982
- Tornado, May 12, 1982
- Tornado, May 28, 1981
- Tornado, April 10, 1979
- Tornado, May 28, 1978
- Tornado, May 2, 1978
- Tornado, April 17, 1976
- Tornado, April 23, 1973
- Tornado, March 9, 1973
- Tornado, May 13, 1972
- Tornado, April 19, 1972
- Tornado, May 3, 1968
- Hail, March 27, 1966
- Tornado, June 4, 1964
- Tornado, October 15, 1960
- Tornado, May 25, 1955
More
Tornadoes in Sterling CountyEvery warning in Sterling 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.