Shackelford County

Every recorded tornado

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

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.

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. Apr 25, 2002Flash Flood$3.0 million
   National Weather Service narrative

   Storms remained nearly stationary producing 8 to 12 inches of rain in and around the Albany area. The deluge produced significant flooding in Albany. The hardest hit areas were on the north and west parts of town. The North Hubbard Creek and Gourd Creek came out of their banks. More than 100 homes were damaged or destroyed due to the flood.

2. Apr 23, 2004Hail$800,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Large hail damaged roofs and cars in Albany.

3. Apr 30, 2004Hail$400,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Albany was hit again by another hail storm that produced significant damage to homes and businesses. Windows were broken all through the town.

4. Apr 30, 2004Hail$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This severe weather episode was similar to the one the week before, where there was a strong upper level system in combination with a southward moving canadian cold front and eastward moving dryline. The combination of these features resulted in severe thunderstorms over portions of the Big Country and Heartland. The hardest hit area was Albany where very large hail fell for several minutes resulting in damage to property.

5. Sep 23, 1996Thunderstorm Wind$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Power lines and a few trees were blown down.

6. Sep 15, 1996Flash Flood$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Up to ten inches of rain fell in southeastern Shackelford County overnight September 14th and 15th.

7. Mar 4, 2004Tornado$100,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   This is the same tornado that formed near Clyde and crossed over the county line and went into Shackelford County.

8. Feb 14, 2021Cold/Wind Chill, Shackelford$70,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Wind chill temperatures ranged from -10 to -17 degrees. During this time, there was one period of extreme wind chill temperatures. The extended cold weather damaged the public utility systems.

9. Aug 11, 1996Thunderstorm Wind$50,000
   National Weather Service narrative

   Winds overturned a cattle trailer and cattle were loose on the road. An oncoming vehicle struck the cattle resulting in injuries.

10. Mar 4, 2004Tornado$50,000
    National Weather Service narrative

    This was a brief tornado that produced some damage to a home.

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

115°FJun 27, 1972

All-time low

−8°FJan 4, 1947

Warmest night

88°FJun 28, 1907

Coldest day

12°F3 times, most recently Jan 25, 2026

Wettest day

29.05 inAug 4, 1978

Snowiest day

12.0 inJan 27, 1895

Hottest year

1921mean 68.2°F

Coldest year

1914mean 59.3°F

Wettest year

194146.47 in

Driest year

195611.07 in

Snowiest season

13.2 in1946-47

Station Albany (USC00410120), 1,448 ft elevation, 1.0 miles from the population centre. Daily records from 1901 to October 23, 2026; 94.1% 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 USC00410120.
• 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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