Texas

Storm History: Wichita County, Texas

766 episodes, 1,595 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Wichita 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
1,595
Deaths
57
Injuries
1,853
Damage
$312 million
Episodes
766

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.

Open the live radar over Wichita County

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
Hail57102$2.5 million
Tornado499511,845$281 million
Thunderstorm Wind15420$961,000
Drought10600
Flash Flood7702$26 million
Heat4542
Excessive Heat3900
High Wind2900$46,000
Wildfire1402$140,000
Winter Storm1200$5,000
Heavy Snow1000
Winter Weather800$20,000
Ice Storm800$30,000
Flood600$12,000
Lightning400$805,000
Dense Fog400
Cold/Wind Chill400
Frost/Freeze200
Dust Storm100
Strong Wind100$500
Blizzard100

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 Wichita County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Wichita CountyEvery warning in Wichita 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.