Texas

Storm History: Ward County, Texas

218 episodes, 285 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ward 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
285
Deaths
0
Injuries
20
Damage
$4.3 million
Episodes
218

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
Tornado102018$3.0 million
Hail8001$184,000
Flash Flood4900$334,000
Thunderstorm Wind1700$157,000
Drought1600$680,000
High Wind800$10,000
Heavy Snow400
Ice Storm300
Dust Storm200
Lightning101
Winter Weather100
Blizzard100
Excessive Heat100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Ward County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Ward CountyEvery warning in Ward 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.