Texas

Storm History: Upshur County, Texas

463 episodes, 612 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Upshur 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
612
Deaths
2
Injuries
30
Damage
$20 million
Episodes
463

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
Hail16700$2.7 million
Tornado147227$14 million
Thunderstorm Wind6901$319,000
Heat5500
Drought5400
Flash Flood4701$376,000
Excessive Heat2200
Winter Weather1500
Winter Storm1300
Cold/Wind Chill700$75,000
Ice Storm400
Wildfire401$1.9 million
Flood200
High Wind200$12,000
Freezing Fog100
Lightning100
Hurricane (Typhoon)100$400,000
Heavy Snow100

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 Upshur County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Upshur CountyEvery warning in Upshur 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.