Texas

Storm History: Sterling County, Texas

239 episodes, 327 events since 1955

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.

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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
Tornado11600$71,000
Drought6100$1.5 million
Hail5500
Flash Flood2200
Winter Storm1500$3,000
Thunderstorm Wind1300
Winter Weather1300
Heavy Snow1100
Wildfire702$2,000
Ice Storm500$1,000
Flood300
Frost/Freeze200
Tropical Depression100
High Wind100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Sterling County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.