Tornado in Texas
Every tornado event the National Weather Service has filed in Texas, year by year, with the most significant episodes. A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
The most significant on the map
The most significant tornado episodes in Texas.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The record
- Events
- 10,090
- Deaths
- 595
- Injuries
- 9,633
- Damage
- $7.2 billion
Every year
The most significant
Ranked by deaths, injuries, damage and size together.
- Tornadoes in Texas, May 11, 1953
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 10, 1979
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in Texas, August 25 to 31, 2017Harvey made landfall as a category 4 hurricane near Rockport, Texas during the evening of August 25th.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 11, 1970
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, December 26 to 28, 2015A potent storm system brought deadly tornadoes and severe weather to North Texas on the 26th followed by waves of heavy rainfall that resulted in significant flooding across parts of North and Central Texas.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 22, 1987
- Tornadoes in Texas, May 27, 1997Several eyewitnesses reported that the Jarrell tornado was preceded for a period of 8 to 10 minutes by a series of short-lived very small tornadoes that formed from the same supercell thunderstorm.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 15, 1957
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 2, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 2, 1982
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, November 15, 1987
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 18, 1970
- Tornadoes in Texas, March 13, 1953
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, September 12, 1961
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 3, 1964
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Texas, March 10, 1973
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 23 to 24, 2015An upper level shortwave trough moved around the longwave low over the Four Corners region. This upper distubance interacted with a surface boundary moving northward as a warm front from South Texas into a very moist airmass.
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, June 11 to 12, 2025A mid-level shortwave trough moved over Texas and combined with an abnormally moist airmass to generate thunderstorms. These storms were very efficient rain producers dropping locally heavy rain that led to flash flooding. There were also a few severe thunderstorms.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 17, 1970
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in Texas, May 25 to 26, 2024Another round of dryline-induced convection took place the night of May 25 as a shortwave trough moved overhead. Thunderstorms were more isolated in nature, but one ambitious supercell produced multiple tornadoes the evening of May 25th.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, November 7, 1957
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 15, 2013A tornado and severe weather outbreak occurred on the afternoon and evening hours of May 15th. Nineteen tornadoes occurred, including one EF-4 and one EF-3. Six fatalities occurred in the city of Granbury, TX.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 15, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 31, 1959
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 2, 1965
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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.