Jones County

Every recorded tornado

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

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

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.

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 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. Aug 18, 2007Flash Flood$25.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   About 215 homes in Hamlin were flooded at low lying areas located near California Creek. Several residents had to be evacuated as the water level in their homes increase to 3 to 4 feet. Farm road 57 and County Road 123 were also closed. Throughout Jones county, a total of about 400 homes were damaged, along with several road and bridge approaches washed out.

2. Oct 17, 2018Flood$6.3 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Prolonged heavy rainfall flooded roads across Jones County and this flooding damaged some roads in the county. This damage and flooding was exasperated by all of the rainfall since September.

3. Jul 6, 2002Flash Flood$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Jones County received very heavy rains on the morning of the 6th. These rains resulted in some flooding in the Hamlin and Anson areas. Three homes were flooded, but many county roads were washed out. A news paper article stated that around 450 miles of road were damaged in some way by the flooding. The most severe damage was in the northwest portion of the county.

4. Jun 20, 1998Hail$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Golfball to tennis ball size hail fell in Hamlin for 20 minutes

5. Jun 20, 1998Thunderstorm Wind$1.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Winds estimated at 80 mph destroyed a barn and knocked down trees and power poles across the city

6. Jan 22, 2009Wildfire, Jones$500,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   A large wildfire occured 4 miles east of Hawley. The fire burned 2600 acres and destroyed 11 homes, 20 outbuildings and 10 vehicles. Also, one firefighter was injured.

7. Feb 15, 2021Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Jones$208,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Wind chill temperatures from the Texas Tech West Texas Mesonet site located at Stamford measured a wind chill temperature of 18 degrees below zero. The coldest wind chill was -21 degrees. Jones County reported damage to their public utility systems.

8. Jun 14, 1997Thunderstorm Wind$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Strong winds destroyed a warehouse, ripped off a portion of a carwash, tore the roof off of a downtown store building, toppled a tall sign and a church steeple, and blew down some trees and power lines.

9. Jun 3, 1996Thunderstorm Wind$200,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Winds downed trees and power lines at scattered locations across Jones County.

10. Jun 16, 1997Hail$100,000

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

114°FJun 27, 1994

All-time low

−12°FDec 23, 1989

Warmest night

84°F3 times, most recently Aug 1, 1986

Coldest day

9°FJan 25, 2026

Wettest day

6.18 inJun 2, 2023

Snowiest day

9.8 inApr 5, 1996

Hottest year

1963mean 67.7°F

Coldest year

1989mean 63.2°F

Wettest year

199246.23 in

Driest year

199810.13 in

Snowiest season

20.5 in1995-96

Station Anson (USC00410268), 1,717 ft elevation, 6.5 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1898 to October 20, 2026; 85.6% 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.

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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, station USC00410268.
• 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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