Texas

Storm History: Swisher County, Texas

569 episodes, 765 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Swisher 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
765
Deaths
6
Injuries
12
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
569

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
Tornado246411$42 million
Hail12100$4.6 million
Drought9900$1.2 million
High Wind6400$462,000
Thunderstorm Wind6100$201,000
Flash Flood3000$290,000
Winter Storm2800
Heavy Snow2100
Wildfire2000$500,000
Winter Weather2000$40,000
Flood1800$11 million
Dust Storm1400$75,000
Ice Storm920$55,000
Blizzard600$200,000
Lightning201$50,000
Heavy Rain200
Debris Flow200
Heat100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Swisher County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Swisher CountyEvery warning in Swisher 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.