Texas

Storm History: Travis County, Texas

671 episodes, 1,371 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Travis 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
1,371
Deaths
58
Injuries
263
Damage
$1.2 billion
Episodes
671

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
Hail446019$645 million
Tornado3851238$397 million
Flash Flood30521126$125 million
Drought6900
Thunderstorm Wind4908$2.3 million
Winter Storm2293$58 million
Winter Weather1800
Flood16150$1.1 million
Heat13130
Lightning12113$915,000
Excessive Heat800
Strong Wind600$150,000
Wildfire500$18 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill500
High Wind400
Tropical Storm300
Ice Storm310
Funnel Cloud100
Dense Fog106

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 Travis County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Travis CountyEvery warning in Travis 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.