Storm History: Walker County, Texas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Walker 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
- 343
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 26
- Damage
- $640 million
- Episodes
- 228
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado | 108 | 2 | 24 | $603 million |
| Hail | 85 | 0 | 0 | $639,000 |
| Flash Flood | 54 | 0 | 0 | $1.0 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 41 | 0 | 2 | $230,000 |
| Drought | 15 | 0 | 0 | $8.3 million |
| Heat | 7 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 6 | 0 | 0 | $15,000 |
| Excessive Heat | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 5 | 0 | 0 | $54,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $773,000 |
| Flood | 4 | 0 | 0 | $670,000 |
| Hurricane (Typhoon) | 2 | 1 | 0 | $22 million |
| Heavy Snow | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $7,000 |
| Winter Weather | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extreme Cold/Wind Chill | 1 | 0 | 0 | $3.3 million |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, August 25, 2017
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2008
- Drought, August 1, 1998
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2021
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 23, 2005
- Tropical Storm, June 5, 2001
- Flood, May 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, November 2, 2000
- Tornado, February 9, 1983
- Tornado, January 21, 1998
- Tornado, November 5, 2000
- Tornado, June 4, 1973
- Tornado, February 10, 1981
- Tornado, January 1, 1999
- Hail, April 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 16, 2015
- Tornado, January 25, 2012
- Tornado, October 23, 1997
- Tornado, April 28, 2024
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2000
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, January 22, 1999
- Hail, March 18, 2018
- Hail, April 18, 2020
- Hail, February 13, 2005
- Hail, January 26, 1994
- Hail, March 30, 1985
- Hail, January 8, 2016
- Hail, April 26, 2006
- Hail, May 9, 2026
- Hail, June 10, 2023
- Hail, May 26, 2020
- Flash Flood, April 16, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2015
- Hail, March 28, 2014
- Flood, May 21, 2013
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, April 5, 1956
- Tornado, May 13, 1982
- Tornado, February 5, 1986
- Tornado, April 1, 1988
- Tornado, April 27, 1990
- Tornado, May 13, 1994
- Tornado, May 29, 1994
- Tornado, April 22, 2020
- Tornado, February 10, 1981
- Tornado, March 31, 1957
- Tornado, March 1, 1973
- Tornado, June 4, 1973
- Tornado, March 30, 1976
- Tornado, May 16, 1981
- Tornado, February 9, 1983
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, May 9, 2026
- Tornado, October 25, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 1, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 20, 2025
- Flash Flood, May 30, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 28, 2024
- Tornado, May 16, 2024
- Flood, May 1, 2024
- Flash Flood, May 1, 2024
- Tornado, April 28, 2024
- Hail, February 11, 2024
- Flood, February 10, 2024
- Flash Flood, January 23, 2024
- Drought, October 1, 2023
- Heat, September 5, 2023
- Drought, September 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 23, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 5, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 31, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 12, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 24, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 21, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 16, 2023
- Hail, June 10, 2023
- Hail, May 23, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 28, 2023
- Hail, January 7, 2023
- Drought, August 1, 2022
- Drought, July 19, 2022
- Drought, June 14, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 12, 2021
- Tornado, May 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 17, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2021
- Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, February 12, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2021
- Hail, May 26, 2020
- Tornado, April 22, 2020
- Hail, April 18, 2020
- Hail, April 9, 2020
- Tornado, January 10, 2020
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 10, 2019
- Tornado, October 31, 2018
- Flash Flood, October 13, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 2018
- Flash Flood, March 28, 2018
- Hail, March 18, 2018
- Heavy Snow, December 7, 2017
- Tornado, August 25, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 7, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 28, 2017
- Tornado, April 2, 2017
- Tornado, March 24, 2017
- Tornado, April 27, 2016
- Hail, January 8, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 18, 2015
- Tropical Storm, June 15, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 27, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2015
- Hail, April 27, 2015
- Hail, April 18, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 16, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2014
- Funnel Cloud, June 9, 2014
- Hail, April 6, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 4, 2014
- Hail, March 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 3, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2014
- Flash Flood, October 31, 2013
- Flood, May 21, 2013
- Hail, January 29, 2013
- Hail, August 10, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 21, 2012
- Hail, May 11, 2012
- Hail, April 20, 2012
- Flash Flood, February 15, 2012
- Tornado, January 25, 2012
- Tornado, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, April 25, 2011
- Ice Storm, February 3, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 16, 2010
- Hail, April 7, 2010
- Heavy Snow, February 23, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 28, 2009
- Hail, August 21, 2009
- Heat, June 24, 2009
- Hail, March 25, 2009
- Hail, February 2, 2009
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 12, 2008
- Tornado, June 20, 2008
- Hail, June 18, 2008
- Hail, June 17, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 27, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 14, 2008
- Tornado, February 16, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2007
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 13, 2007
- Hail, June 3, 2007
- Flash Flood, May 1, 2007
- Ice Storm, January 16, 2007
- Flash Flood, January 13, 2007
- High Wind, November 15, 2006
- Flash Flood, November 6, 2006
- Flash Flood, October 18, 2006
- Hail, August 17, 2006
- Hail, April 26, 2006
- Hurricane (Typhoon), September 23, 2005
- Tornado, May 28, 2005
- Hail, February 13, 2005
- Tornado, November 23, 2004
- Flash Flood, June 27, 2004
- Tornado, May 31, 2004
- Hail, May 17, 2004
- Tornado, May 13, 2004
- Hail, April 7, 2004
- Flash Flood, September 2, 2003
- Tropical Storm, September 1, 2003
- Hail, August 11, 2003
- Tornado, June 12, 2003
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 1, 2003
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2003
- Flash Flood, November 4, 2002
- Flash Flood, July 13, 2002
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 29, 2002
- Hail, June 16, 2002
- Tornado, October 12, 2001
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2001
- Tropical Storm, June 5, 2001
- Tornado, June 5, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 5, 2001
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 12, 2001
- Ice Storm, December 13, 2000
- Tornado, November 5, 2000
- Flash Flood, November 2, 2000
- Drought, September 1, 2000
- Heat, September 1, 2000
- Heat, August 29, 2000
- Drought, August 1, 2000
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 30, 2000
- Heat, July 6, 2000
- Flash Flood, June 4, 2000
- Hail, May 5, 2000
- Flash Flood, May 4, 2000
- Hail, March 26, 2000
- Heat, August 1, 1999
- Heat, June 26, 1999
- Flash Flood, June 25, 1999
- Tornado, May 2, 1999
- Tornado, April 3, 1999
- Tornado, March 8, 1999
- Flash Flood, January 29, 1999
- Hail, January 22, 1999
- Tornado, January 1, 1999
- Winter Storm, December 22, 1998
- Flash Flood, November 13, 1998
- Flash Flood, November 12, 1998
- Tropical Storm, September 7, 1998
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 30, 1998
- Drought, August 1, 1998
- Hail, July 17, 1998
- Drought, July 1, 1998
- Tornado, June 5, 1998
- Drought, June 1, 1998
- Drought, May 1, 1998
- Hail, April 27, 1998
- Tornado, February 10, 1998
- Tornado, January 21, 1998
- Hail, December 23, 1997
- Tornado, October 23, 1997
- Hail, April 26, 1997
- Flash Flood, February 20, 1997
- Ice Storm, January 12, 1997
- Hail, September 18, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 18, 1996
- Drought, June 1, 1996
- Drought, May 1, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 1996
- Hail, April 22, 1996
- Hail, April 22, 1996
- Drought, April 1, 1996
- Thunderstorm Wind, November 11, 1995
- Hail, November 2, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 1995
- Tornado, May 18, 1995
- Tornado, April 20, 1995
- Tornado, March 7, 1995
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 8, 1994
- Tornado, May 29, 1994
- Tornado, May 28, 1994
- Tornado, May 13, 1994
- Tornado, May 2, 1994
- Hail, January 26, 1994
- Tornado, May 18, 1993
- Tornado, March 28, 1991
- Tornado, April 27, 1990
- Tornado, May 13, 1989
- Hail, May 10, 1989
- Tornado, April 1, 1988
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 19, 1987
- Tornado, November 16, 1987
- Tornado, March 17, 1987
- Hail, November 24, 1986
- Hail, April 27, 1986
- Tornado, February 5, 1986
- Hail, August 24, 1985
- Hail, March 30, 1985
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 12, 1984
- Tornado, May 21, 1984
- Tornado, March 12, 1984
- Tornado, February 9, 1983
- Tornado, June 22, 1982
- Tornado, May 13, 1982
- Tornado, June 2, 1981
- Tornado, May 16, 1981
- Tornado, February 10, 1981
- Tornado, March 30, 1976
- Tornado, June 4, 1973
- Tornado, March 1, 1973
- Tornado, October 16, 1971
- Tornado, May 24, 1971
- Tornado, March 31, 1957
- Tornado, April 5, 1956
More
Tornadoes in Walker CountyEvery warning in Walker 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.