Texas

Storm History: Uvalde County, Texas

404 episodes, 573 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Uvalde 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
573
Deaths
7
Injuries
91
Damage
$23 million
Episodes
404

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
Flash Flood165269$2.0 million
Tornado13212$4.5 million
Hail10800$451,000
Drought10400
Flood19120$16 million
Thunderstorm Wind1600$358,000
Winter Storm910
Winter Weather900
Excessive Heat500
Heat120
High Wind100
Wildfire100
Cold/Wind Chill100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100

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 Uvalde County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Uvalde CountyEvery warning in Uvalde 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.