Texas

Storm History: Walker County, Texas

228 episodes, 343 events since 1956

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.

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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
Tornado108224$603 million
Hail8500$639,000
Flash Flood5400$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind4102$230,000
Drought1500$8.3 million
Heat700
Winter Storm600$15,000
Excessive Heat600
Ice Storm500$54,000
Tropical Storm400$773,000
Flood400$670,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)210$22 million
Heavy Snow200
High Wind100$7,000
Winter Weather100
Funnel Cloud100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100$3.3 million

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 Walker County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

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.