Texas

Storm History: Tom Green County, Texas

607 episodes, 1,451 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Tom Green 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
1,451
Deaths
22
Injuries
277
Damage
$328 million
Episodes
607

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
Tornado57015263$206 million
Hail33100$352,000
Flash Flood32624$22 million
Thunderstorm Wind7100$667,000
Drought5700$97 million
Winter Storm1800$98,000
Winter Weather1353$90,000
Flood1200$5,000
Wildfire1104$315,000
Heavy Snow1000$405,000
Ice Storm803$30,000
High Wind700$3,000
Heat400
Frost/Freeze300
Dust Storm300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Cold/Wind Chill200$120,000
Lightning100
Heavy Rain100
Tropical Depression100

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 Tom Green County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Tom Green CountyEvery warning in Tom Green 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.