Texas

Storm History: Winkler County, Texas

211 episodes, 275 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Winkler 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
275
Deaths
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$1.4 million
Episodes
211

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
Tornado7900$69,000
Hail6600$304,000
Flash Flood5100$210,000
Thunderstorm Wind2700$110,000
High Wind1600$35,000
Drought1600$720,000
Heavy Snow700
Ice Storm400
Dust Storm300
Winter Storm200
Blizzard200
Winter Weather100
Wildfire101

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 Winkler County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Winkler CountyEvery warning in Winkler 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.