Texas

Storm History: Willacy County, Texas

329 episodes, 499 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Willacy 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
499
Deaths
3
Injuries
3
Damage
$470 million
Episodes
329

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
Drought15800$21 million
Tornado5923$2.3 million
Excessive Heat4700
Hail3910$82,000
Frost/Freeze3800$43 million
Heat3800
Flash Flood3500$28 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2400$1.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind1700$40,000
Flood1300$341,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)600$371 million
Cold/Wind Chill500
Ice Storm400$5,000
Heavy Rain300$1,000
Wildfire300
High Surf200
High Wind200$2,000
Tropical Storm200$2.0 million
Coastal Flood100
Heavy Snow100
Winter Weather100
Storm Surge/Tide100

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 Willacy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Willacy CountyEvery warning in Willacy 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.