Crockett County

Every recorded tornado

1. Injuries and deaths are for the tornado’s whole path, which may extend beyond the county. Deaths recorded within Crockett County: 0.
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.

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

River crests

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.

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.

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 county boundary (or inside the county).
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. Oct 8, 2002Flash Flood$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   One to three inches of rain during the early morning hours of October 8th, in combination with heavy rains during the previous days, produced flooding and washouts of several Farm Roads and Highways in the southeastern portion of Crockett County.

2. Jun 15, 2007Tornado$70,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A tornado uprooted trees and damaged outbuildings and some mobile homes south of Ozona.

3. Apr 7, 2002Hail$25,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Hail up to the size of baseballs battered eastern Crockett County. At least one house suffered extensive damage, with many windows broken out and the roof destroyed. Several automobiles were also hard hit, losing their windshields and having extensive dent damage.

4. Jun 17, 2006Thunderstorm Wind$25,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Damages were to trees, power lines, awnings and sheds.

5. May 27, 2000Thunderstorm Wind$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A retail store lost part of its roof when high winds blew through the county.

6. Jun 18, 2000Flash Flood$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Rainfall totals of up to 8 inches were reported in Crockett County, flooding many roadways. Highway 163, Ranch Roads 1973 and 2083, and at least 5 other county roads were closed due to high waters. Road crews repaired at least 5 roads, as low water crossings were washed out.

7. Apr 7, 2007Winter Storm, Crockett$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A significant winter weather event with unseasonably cold temperatures affected West Central Texas on Easter Weekend. Winter weather events seldom occur in this region during April. An unseasonably cold airmass developed across the northern Plains, Midwest and Great Lakes Regions on April 5th and 6th. A strong high pressure system dropped south from Canada, and pushed this cold air southward across the Plains states and into Texas. Temperatures dropped into the 30 to 35 degree range across West Central Texas, by the early morning of Saturday, April 7th. The temperatures held steady or slowly dropped a few degrees during the day Saturday, and remained in the upper 20s to lower 30s…

8. Jan 16, 2007Winter Storm, Crockett$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Right on the heels of the Ice Storm that affected the region a few days before, another surge of arctic air moved into West Central Texas on Monday the 15th. With the active sub-tropical jet overhead, and disturbances moving through the jet, snow began to fall Tuesday morning Janurary 16th across the Northern Edwards Plateau and along the I10 corridor. The snow spread north and east into the Concho Valley including San Angelo. The snow continued to spread northeast across the Northwest Hill Country and into Coleman and Brownwood by Tuesday afternoon. The snow eventually spread across the I20 corridor across the southern Big Country early Wednesday morning. The Snow began to taper…

9. May 9, 2007Flash Flood$10,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Flooding of numerous streets in Ozona due to flooding from the draw that runs through town. Highway 163 south of Ozona and highway 290 east of Ozona were closed due to flooding. The intersection of highways 163 and 137 located 3 miles to the north of Ozona was also flooded.

10. Oct 24, 2002Flash Flood$10,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    Heavy rains of 2 to 4 inches fell on already saturated soils in the southeastern part of Crockett County. Water levels that had receeded just hours before quickly rose to flood roads and produced new washouts.

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.

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

Neighbouring counties

• 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.
• 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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