Texas

Storm History: Yoakum County, Texas

412 episodes, 499 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Yoakum 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
0
Injuries
1
Damage
$468 million
Episodes
412

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
Hail10801$8.9 million
Drought9900$451 million
Tornado7500$1.1 million
High Wind4500$275,000
Thunderstorm Wind3000$10,000
Flash Flood2700$5.4 million
Wildfire2400$75,000
Winter Storm1800$25,000
Dust Storm1700$500,000
Heavy Snow1600$50,000
Flood1500$20,000
Winter Weather1100
Ice Storm600
Blizzard300$35,000
Heavy Rain100
Lightning100$16,000
Dense Fog100$75,000
Heat100$100,000
Frost/Freeze100

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 Yoakum County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Yoakum CountyEvery warning in Yoakum 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.