Longview

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond this area.
2. Weak tornadoes were under-recorded before Doppler radar coverage became national in the early 1990s, so earlier decades read low. Ratings use the Fujita scale before February 2007 and the Enhanced Fujita scale after.

Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, 1950 to 2025.

Every storm within 100 miles

1. Tropical storms and hurricanes (34 kt or more, still tropical) at closest approach. Post-tropical remnants with gale-force winds are listed but not counted. Direct: track within 50 miles; near: within 100 miles. Distance is measured to the county boundary for counties and to the city centre for cities, using positions interpolated hourly between HURDAT2 fixes.

National Hurricane Center HURDAT2, 1851 to 2025.

Every large fire

1. Large fires mapped by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity program since 1984: 1,000 acres or more in the West, 500 or more in the East. Prescribed burns are excluded. Acres here are the part of each perimeter inside this place.

Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service), 1984 to 2026.

Smoke overhead

1. A smoke day is a date on which a smoke plume traced by NOAA Hazard Mapping System analysts from satellite imagery covered this place's point (the county's population centre or the city centre). Counts here are of medium or heavy smoke. Since 2018 analysts have often drawn light smoke as one area over most of the continent, so light-smoke counts are not comparable from year to year. The plumes show smoke anywhere in the air above, not air quality at the ground, and smoke hidden by cloud is missed.

NOAA Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, 2011 to 2026, retrieved October 30, 2026.

Flood insurance figures are for Gregg County, the county that contains Longview.

Claims by ZIP code

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OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026. NOAA Storm Events through 2026.

River crests

River gauges in Gregg County, the county that contains Longview.

River gauges

1. Crests are the highest and the recent crests the National Weather Service lists for each river gauge in the county that has a flood stage, not every flood. Flood categories use each gauge's current flood stages; crests from before levees, dams or channel changes may not be comparable. Crests measured on an old datum are left out of the rankings.

NOAA National Water Prediction Service gauge records, retrieved October 30, 2026.

The drought index is for Gregg County, the county that contains Longview.

1. The Palmer Drought Severity Index is computed by NOAA each month from the county's average temperature and precipitation, relative to the county's own climate. Zero is normal; -3 or lower is severe drought and -4 or lower extreme drought. It describes the long-term balance of moisture, not water supply or crop losses.

NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, 1895 to September 2026, issued October 6, 2026.

Every earthquake of magnitude 4 or more within 50 miles

1. Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more in the USGS Comprehensive Catalog since 1900. Within 50 miles means the epicentre lies within 50 miles of the city centre.
2. Small earthquakes were under-recorded before the modern seismic networks of the 1970s and are still missed in remote areas, so early decades read low. Magnitudes are as the catalogue reports them and mix scales (moment, local and body-wave).

USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog, 1900 to present, retrieved October 30, 2026.

More event types since 1996

Costliest events since 1996

1. May 4, 1999Tornado$19.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Major damage to homes and businesses. Stoneridge Apartment complex lost portions of its roof and walls collapsed. The complex was condemned. This tornado is separate from the Gree County to Rusk County to Gregg County tornado event which occurred at the same time.

2. May 4, 1999Tornado$6.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Numerous homes and businesses damages. This tornado continued into Rusk County, TX then reentered Gregg County, TX.

3. Mar 18, 2008Tornado$3.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   This EF0 tornado was approximately 100 yards wide and was a continuation of the tornado in Rusk County, Texas. Many large trees were uprooted or snapped in the city of Longview, Texas. Damage started along the Rusk, Gregg County line near Stone Road were trees were uprooted. Dozens of trees were downed near the intersection of Jean Road and High Street to near Electra Street and Timpson Street to near Alpine Road and Glover Drive. Numerous trees were downed or snapped causing damage to cars, houses and outbuildings throughout the city including Valley View Elementary School where trees fell on the roof puncturing holes in the roof. Trees were reported down east of Fourth Street…

4. Sep 4, 2011Wildfire, Gregg$2.3 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Strong sustained winds and wind gusts, in association with Tropical Storm Lee which made landfall across the south central and southeast Louisiana gulf coast, were felt across all of Northeast Texas on September 4th. These winds, along with very low humidity values and exceptional drought conditions across Northeast Texas, resulted in critical wildfire threat being met across the region. A wildfire, which became known as the Moore Fire, began 4 miles southwest of Gladewater consuming 1556 acres of timberland and grassland near Hwy. 135. Twenty homes were destroyed along with 15 outbuildings. A 20 year old woman and her 18 month old daughter died in a house fire on Lincoln Springs…

5. Mar 30, 2008Flash Flood$2.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   River Road and High Street in Longview were both closed. In addition...17 other roads in and around Longview, Texas were closed due to excessive heavy rainfall. The downtown area had several businesses flooded with as many as two feet of water in them.

6. Apr 9, 2015Tornado$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF-1 tornado touched down near downtown Longview, Texas...traveling in a east northeast direction for approximately 1.32 miles before lifting some 5 minutes later.|Damage consisted of roof damage to a nursing home. A nearby mobile home park also sustained damage. The tornado did minor to moderate damage to homes along the Eden Drive/Eastman Road corridor. Three mobile homes were completely destroyed by fallen trees. The tornado also tore the roof off a local church on Eden Drive.

7. Sep 13, 2008Tropical Storm, Gregg$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   The remnants of Hurricane Ike resulted in Tropical Storm force wind gusts being reported at the Gregg County Airport. The airport reported a 56 mph wind gust before the ASOS equipment lost power. Numerous trees and power lines were downed across the county with power outages widespread as well. One tree was downed on a home in Gladewater, Texas. No injuries were reported. The wind blew the siding off the old Wiseman Furniture building on the corner of Gay and Hwy. 271 along with all the windows blown out causing significant water damage inside the building. In Longview, Texas alone, over 82 power poles were broken along with 50 blown transformers and 113 downed electrical…

8. Jan 6, 1998Hail$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Grapefruit to softball size hail went through the roofs of houses and mobile homes. Two to three inch hail drifts remained along Hwy 300 between Longview and Gilmer 17 hours after it fell.

9. May 28, 2017Tornado$750,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   An EF-1 tornado with maximum estimated winds near 105 mph touched down along Pine Tree Road just north of West Cheryl Street northwest of Longview. The tornado proceeded south southeast through the Tenneryville area snapping and uprooting numerous trees in the area. The tornado traveled just west of the Pine Tree ISD campus and continued southeast towards Highway 80, uprooting and twisting numerous trees, with several landing on homes. The tornado continued southeast towards the Greggton community where it damaged a few homes along Willow Springs Drive before crossing Highway 31 and the West Loop 281 where it began to turn more to the east southeast. The tornado caused the most…

10. Jan 21, 1999Thunderstorm Wind$640,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Numerous roofs were damaged. Several mobile homes were destroyed and extensive roof damage to an apartment complex.

1. Storm Events records before 1996 cover only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail. Damage figures are as reported by the National Weather Service at the time, not adjusted for inflation.

NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 1950 to 2026, issued October 26, 2026.

All-time high

113°FAug 10, 1936

All-time low

−4°FJan 18, 1930

Warmest night

83°F10 times, most recently Jul 6, 2019

Coldest day

15°FJan 11, 1962

Wettest day

8.70 inMar 29, 1989

Snowiest day

12.0 inDec 22, 1929

Hottest year

1911mean 69.1°F

Coldest year

1968mean 63.6°F

Wettest year

195772.87 in

Driest year

201025.14 in

Snowiest season

26.0 in1929-30

Station Longview (USC00415341), 330 ft elevation, 4.2 miles from the city centre. Daily records from 1902 to October 27, 2026; 92.3% of days in the last 30 years are complete. Records at a single station can differ from a city’s official threaded record, which may combine several stations.

NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily.

Declarations for Gregg County.

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OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries, retrieved October 30, 2026. Statewide declarations are not listed.

• Tornadoes NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database, through 2025.
• Tropical cyclones NOAA National Hurricane Center HURDAT2 (Atlantic; Northeast and Central Pacific), through 2025.
• Wildfire USGS/USFS Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity, through 2026.
• Storm events NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, through 2026.
• Flood insurance OpenFEMA NFIP Redacted Claims v3, refreshed August 4, 2026.
• Declarations OpenFEMA Disaster Declarations Summaries v2, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Weather records NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network Daily, station USC00415341.
• River crests NOAA National Weather Service, National Water Prediction Service river gauges, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Drought NOAA NCEI nClimDiv county Palmer Drought Severity Index, through September 2026.
• Smoke NOAA NESDIS Hazard Mapping System smoke analysis, retrieved October 30, 2026.
• Earthquakes USGS ANSS Comprehensive Earthquake Catalog (ComCat), retrieved October 30, 2026.

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