Texas

Storm History: Webb County, Texas

379 episodes, 635 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Webb 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
635
Deaths
18
Injuries
1
Damage
$72 million
Episodes
379

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 Flood15720$27 million
Hail12810$35 million
Drought12300
Tornado9900$1.1 million
Excessive Heat48110
Thunderstorm Wind3000$1.1 million
Heat1510
Cold/Wind Chill1000$1.5 million
Flood700$6.0 million
Wildfire400
Frost/Freeze400
Ice Storm411$100,000
Heavy Snow200
Heavy Rain200
Winter Weather120
Strong Wind100$5,000

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 Webb County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Webb CountyEvery warning in Webb 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.