Texas tornado and storm history
Tornadoes, hurricanes, hail, and severe storms recorded in Texas between 1950 and 2026, from NOAA's Storm Events Database. Search an address to see the storms that came closest to it.
10,090
Tornado reports
165,670
Storm events
85
Hurricane reports
2,507
Deaths, all storms
Every tornado track in Texas
9,925 county track segments since 1950, coloured by rating. Zoom in and each path widens to its surveyed width. Tap one for the storm.
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Tornadoes by decade in Texas
All tornado reports against only the strong ones (F2 and above). Averages are per year over the years the federal record covers completely — 1952, 1976 and 1993 are each missing whole months in NOAA’s own files and are left out.
| Decade | All reports | Strong (F2+) | All per year | Strong per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 634 | 254 | 70 | 28 |
| 1960s | 1,195 | 372 | 120 | 37 |
| 1970s | 1,298 | 368 | 144 | 41 |
| 1980s | 1,492 | 250 | 149 | 25 |
| 1990s | 1,614 | 214 | 179 | 24 |
| 2000s | 1,529 | 123 | 153 | 12 |
| 2010s | 1,266 | 132 | 127 | 13 |
The 2020s are left out because the decade is not finished. Reports are counted per county, so one tornado crossing a county line can appear more than once.
Significant recent events in Texas
Events with deaths, several injuries, $1M+ property damage, or tornadoes rated EF3 and up.
Lingering floodwaters remained after heavy rainfall, along with some reports of wrecks and high water in spots. The most significant report came from local broadcast news station. They reported that first responders received a call around 6pm that a 15 year old had gone missing a…
A local news station published an online news story, indicating that a 75 year old man was killed after their pickup hydroplaned in heavy rainfall along I-45 southbound between Shepherd Hill Road and Calvary Road.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding. A vehicle was swept away at the 1500 block of Lower Mason Creek Rd. into Mason Creek. One person was found dead in the vehicle approximately two miles downstream.
Torrential rainfall the began just before the morning commute would soon add up to notable flash flooding across Weslaco, parts of Mercedes, and extending westward to the east side of Donna and southward to near US 281 (Progreso). Rainfall totals of near 7 inches were recorded al…
A lightning strike started a fire at a hotel in Brady. The Texas State Fire Marshal has ruled the building a total loss due to the extensive fire, smoke, and water damage.
A pecan tree was downed onto a restaurant patio along Barton Springs Road by strong winds produced by a line of thunderstorms. One man died after sustaining critical injuries from the falling tree.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain that led to flash flooding sending San Pedro Creek out of its banks near Furnish Ave. and S. San Marcos St. San Antonio firefighters were called to the scene to execute a high-water rescue. They recovered a man, but he was pronounced dead at the …
The tornado touched down north of Mineral Wells near Sundown Road and FM 1821, producing minor tree and fence damage. The tornado then continued southeast crossing Ellis White Road before moving into the Country Club Estates neighborhood. Multiple trees were uprooted, multiple ca…
This is a continuation of the EF-3 tornado that began in Palo Pinto County. The tornado continued damaging homes and businesses southeast of Country Club Parkway producing damage consistent with 100 to 130 mph winds. A commercial building with a personal weather station measured …
An EF-2 tornado occurred on the southwest side of Runaway Bay with peak winds estimated at 130 mph. This tornado formed just south of Highway 380 near Port O Call Drive and Pinto Court where a 100 to 200 yard wide swath of EF-0 tree damage was observed. The tornado then continued…
RFD winds of 80-100 mph occurred just outside the path of the EF-1 tornado in Springtown, making it challenging at times to distinguish the path of the tornado from the RFD wind damage. The damage in the RFD area was similar to the tornado with damage to the roofs of homes, damag…
Lightning started a house fire in Colleyville that was contained to the attic of the home, however a female adult and a child under the age of 3 died in the fire. Another child was transported with injuries.
Thunderstorms produced heavy rain Monday and Monday night across the northeast side of San Antonio. Between 4 and 6 inches of rain occurred. This caused a quick rise into flood stage on Salado Creek early Tuesday morning. A 44 year old man was killed by the flood waters in the Sa…
A tractor-trailer was overturned (and rolled) on U.S. Highway 287 due to thunderstorm winds. Details on this event were relayed through local broadcast media.
A father drowned while trying to rescue his two children near Selma Park at Lake Amon Carter after they were pushed out into the water by strong wind gusts. Peak gusts were observed to be between 40 and 50 mph at the time of the incident.
Counties and zones
Each county’s full storm history, with its event count. Some entries are National Weather Service forecast zones rather than civil counties.
Anderson (737)
Andrews (404)
Angelina (738)
Aransas (235)
Aransas County Islands (36)
Archer (859)
Armstrong (779)
Atascosa (386)
Austin (270)
Bailey (611)
Bandera (468)
Bastrop (490)
Baylor (543)
Bee (452)
Bell (1,219)
Bexar (1,629)
Big Bend Area (22)
Big Bend Area / Brewster Except Nw / W Jeff Davis (9)
Blanco (392)
Bolivar Peninsula (17)
Borden (265)
Bosque (650)
Bowie (1,046)
Brazoria (598)
Brazoria Islands (19)
Brazos (508)
Brewster (519)
Briscoe (619)
Brooks (458)
Brown (809)
Burleson (291)
Burnet (655)
Caldwell (411)
Calhoun (253)
Calhoun County Islands (37)
Callahan (602)
Cameron (879)
Cameron Island (26)
Camp (405)
Carson (1,208)
Cass (840)
Castro (777)
Central Brewster County (8)
Chambers (279)
Cherokee (752)
Childress (687)
Chinati Mountains (3)
Chisos Basin (1)
Clay (863)
Clay and Archer (2)
Coastal Aransas County (104)
Coastal Brazoria (20)
Coastal Calhoun County (49)
Coastal Cameron (215)
Coastal Galveston (21)
Coastal Harris (24)
Coastal Jackson (12)
Coastal Kenedy (64)
Coastal Kenedy County (24)
Coastal Kleberg County (47)
Coastal Matagora (1)
Coastal Matagorda (18)
Coastal Nueces County (148)
Coastal Refugio County (44)
Coastal San Patricio County (23)
Coastal San Patrico County (32)
Coastal Willacy (168)
Cochran (525)
Coke (403)
Coleman (626)
Collin (1,529)
Collingsworth (592)
Colorado (277)
Comal (571)
Comanche (636)
Concho (373)
Cooke (922)
Coryell (669)
Cottle (586)
Crane (223)
Crockett (338)
Crosby (651)
Culberson (144)
Dallam (652)
Dallas (2,304)
Davis / Apache Mountains Area (219)
Davis Mountains (60)
Davis Mountains Foothills (14)
Dawson (446)
De Witt (372)
Deaf Smith (933)
Delta (360)
Denton (1,844)
Dickens (537)
Dimmit (255)
Donley (811)
Duval (373)
Eastern Culberson County (6)
Eastern/central El Paso County (115)
Eastland (700)
Ector (898)
Edwards (382)
El Paso (504)
Ellis (1,112)
Erath (734)
Falls (429)
Fannin (804)
Far West Plateau (1)
Fayette (376)
Fisher (535)
Floyd (721)
Foard (484)
Foard and Wilbarger (1)
Fort Bend (499)
Franklin (437)
Franklin S (1)
Freestone (391)
Frio (348)
Gaines (565)
Galveston (736)
Galveston Island (28)
Galveston Island and Bolivar Peninsula (14)
Garza (609)
Gillespie (568)
Glasscock (321)
Goliad (316)
Gonzales (334)
Gray (1,179)
Grayson (1,300)
Gregg (808)
Gregg E (2)
Gregg Se (1)
Grimes (253)
Guadalupe (507)
Guadalupe Mountains Above 7000 Feet (163)
Guadalupe Mountains of Culberson County (762)
Guadalupe and Delaware Mountains (280)
Hale (1,025)
Hall (725)
Hamilton (564)
Hansford (755)
Hardeman (686)
Hardin (332)
Harris (2,063)
Harris and Montgomery (1)
Harrison (1,103)
Hartley (852)
Haskell (740)
Hays (593)
Hemphill (648)
Henderson (685)
Hidalgo (784)
Hill (787)
Hockley (958)
Hood (682)
Hopkins (689)
Houston (414)
Howard (678)
Hudspeth (141)
Hunt (876)
Hutchinson (1,233)
Inland Brazoria (17)
Inland Calhoun County (80)
Inland Galveston (16)
Inland Harris (23)
Inland Jackson (17)
Inland Kenedy County (138)
Inland Kleberg County (202)
Inland Matagorda (18)
Inland Nueces County (184)
Inland Refugio County (49)
Inland San Patricio County (60)
Inland San Patrico County (39)
Irion (308)
Jack (623)
Jackson (229)
Jasper (420)
Jeff Davis (180)
Jefferson (756)
Jim Hogg (437)
Jim Wells (627)
Johnson (1,109)
Jones (886)
Karnes (290)
Kaufman (786)
Kendall (435)
Kenedy (234)
Kenedy Island (26)
Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron (2)
Kent (395)
Kerr (583)
Kimble (385)
King (400)
Kinney (338)
Kleberg (321)
Kleberg County Islands (36)
Knox (654)
La Salle (370)
Lamar (765)
Lamb (836)
Lampasas (430)
Lavaca (382)
Lee (316)
Leon (431)
Liberty (389)
Limestone (585)
Lipscomb (773)
Live Oak (444)
Llano (542)
Loving (108)
Lower Brewster County (8)
Lower Jefferson County (43)
Lubbock (1,725)
Lynn (712)
Madison (245)
Marfa Plateau (31)
Marfa Plateau / Presidio Except X W (8)
Marion (464)
Martin (359)
Mason (373)
Matagorda (253)
Matagorda Islands (20)
Maverick (333)
Mcculloch (614)
Mclennan (1,302)
Mcmullen (209)
Medina (538)
Menard (321)
Midland (1,109)
Milam (480)
Mills (389)
Mitchell (469)
Montague (832)
Montgomery (639)
Montgomery and San Jacinto (2)
Moore (993)
Morris (412)
Motley (559)
Nacogdoches (758)
Navarro (731)
Navarro Sw (3)
Newton (278)
Nolan (615)
Northern Hidalgo County (138)
Northern Hudspeth Highlands/hueco Mountains (43)
Northern Jasper (14)
Northern Liberty (15)
Northern Newton (12)
Northern Orange County (3)
Nueces (1,010)
Nueces County Islands (66)
Ochiltree (828)
Oldham (770)
Orange (366)
Palo Doro Canyon (14)
Palo Pinto (907)
Panola (699)
Parker (1,222)
Parker Se (2)
Parmer (693)
Pecos (1,061)
Polk (364)
Potter (1,986)
Presidio (171)
Presidio Valley (17)
Presidio Valley / X W Presidio (10)
Rains (347)
Randall (1,750)
Randall County (118)
Reagan (268)
Real (370)
Red River (646)
Reeves (409)
Reeves County Plains (28)
Reeves County and Upper Trans Pecos (38)
Reeves County and Upper Trans Pecos / Reeves / Ne Culberson (9)
Refugio (232)
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern El Paso/western Hudspeth Counties (40)
Rio Grande Valley of Eastern Hudspeth County (61)
Roberts (553)
Robertson (374)
Rockwall (392)
Runnels (641)
Rusk (971)
Sabine (381)
Salt Basin (68)
San Augustine (344)
San Jacinto (268)
San Patricio (465)
San Saba (377)
Schleicher (259)
Scurry (625)
Shackelford (403)
Shackleford (4)
Shelby (665)
Sherman (589)
Smith (1,252)
Somervell (351)
Southern Hidalgo County (147)
Southern Hudspeth Highlands (79)
Southern Jasper (12)
Southern Liberty (16)
Southern Newton (12)
Southern Orange County (3)
Starr (575)
Stephens (588)
Sterling (327)
Stonewall (382)
Sutton (258)
Swisher (764)
Swisher N (1)
Tarrant (3,212)
Taylor (1,268)
Terrell (241)
Terry (582)
Texas (1)
Texas Se (1)
Throckmorton (501)
Titus (492)
Tom Green (1,451)
Travis (1,371)
Trinity (276)
Tyler (330)
Upper Jefferson County (3)
Upshur (612)
Upton (302)
Uvalde (573)
Val Verde (878)
Val Verde S (8)
Van Horn & Hwy 54 Corridor (18)
Van Horn and Highway 54 Corridor (15)
Van Horn and Salt Flat Basin (1)
Van Horn/guadalupe Mountains Area (38)
Van Zandt (644)
Victoria (639)
Walker (343)
Waller (204)
Ward (285)
Washington (262)
Washington N (1)
Webb (635)
Western El Paso County (61)
Wharton (374)
Wheeler (775)
Wichita (1,595)
Wilbarger (846)
Wilbarger and Wichita (1)
Willacy (427)
Willacy Island (17)
Williamson (1,069)
Wilson (341)
Winkler (275)
Wise (1,194)
Wood (708)
Yoakum (499)
Young (780)
Zapata (495)
Zapata and Starr (1)
Zavala (287)
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