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The public record 1996 to today

Texas wind history

The public federal storm record holds 4,439 days with wind on record somewhere in Texas since 1996, 3,726 of them at 58 mph or more, across 86,431 reports. The strongest on record is 138 mph on 29 October 2019 in HARDIN County. 376 cities have wind on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched, which storm days more than one source carried, and how far away the nearest instruments stood. The hail family has its own index: Texas hail history.

4,439

Days with wind on record, statewide

3,726

Days at 58 mph or more

138mph

Strongest measured, Oct 2019

376

Cities with wind on record nearby

Wind by city in Texas

Ranked by days with wind on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population, each with its strongest figure: measured in the observed tone, an estimate in the estimated tone. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Lubbock 259 days 115 mph
  2. 02 Amarillo 257 days 104 mph
  3. 03 Seabrook 240 days 86 mph
  4. 04 Texas City 237 days 83 mph
  5. 05 Corpus Christi 223 days 96 mph
  6. 06 Wolfforth 199 days 105 mph
  7. 07 Saginaw 190 days 105 mph
  8. 08 Richland Hills 188 days 105 mph
  9. 09 El Paso 184 days 92 mph
  10. 10 Dickinson 184 days 83 mph
  11. 11 Aransas Pass 178 days 90 mph
  12. 12 Haltom City 177 days 105 mph
  13. 13 La Marque 177 days 83 mph
  14. 14 Ingleside 173 days 100 mph
  15. 15 Dalhart 172 days 111 mph
  16. 16 Hurst 171 days 105 mph
  17. 17 Bedford 169 days 105 mph
  18. 18 Fort Worth 168 days 105 mph
  19. 19 Watauga 166 days 105 mph
  20. 20 Sansom Park 164 days 105 mph
  21. 21 Forest Hill 162 days 105 mph
  22. 22 Jacinto City 161 days 92 mph
  23. 23 Galena Park 160 days 92 mph
  24. 24 River Oaks 160 days 105 mph
  25. 25 North Richland Hills 159 days 105 mph
  26. 26 Hitchcock 158 days 81 mph
  27. 27 Houston 156 days 92 mph
  28. 28 Colleyville 156 days 105 mph
  29. 29 Galveston 151 days 81 mph
  30. 30 La Porte 151 days 86 mph
Every place in Texas (376)

Wind days by year in Texas

Days with wind At 58 mph or more

The busiest year on record is 2023, with 184 days of wind, 169 of them at 58 mph or more.

Strongest wind recorded in Texas

Measured Estimated, not measured

Strongest wind recorded in Texas: date, wind speed, whether it was a gust or a sustained speed, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Speed Reading Evidence County
29 Oct 2019 138 mph Gust Ground observation HARDIN
29 Oct 2019 138 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
19 Feb 2017 138 mph Gust Ground observation WILLIAMSON
10 Feb 1998 135 mph Sustained Ground observation POLK
13 Mar 2020 130 mph Sustained Ground observation Not stated
13 Mar 2020 130 mph Gust Ground observation REEVES
16 Jan 1996 128 mph Sustained Ground observation VAN HORN & HWY 54 CORRIDOR
28 Mar 2007 127 mph Gust Ground observation GRAY
The next step

Get the wind report for an address in Texas

The figures on this page are the record across Texas: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every wind report in the archive filed under Texas by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A wind day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of wind, not four. A report's figure is its gust where it has one and its sustained speed otherwise, and the tables say which.
Measured and estimated
A speed reported by a person or an instrument on the ground, whether read from an anemometer or judged by an observer from what the wind did, is filed as observed; a speed inferred from a grid or an analysis is an estimate and is marked as one. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its strongest figure reached 58 mph, the National Weather Service criterion for a damaging gust. Weaker wind is still on the record, and still on this page.
Stations
A station reading is the wind at the instrument, not at any address, and is listed with the distance from the page's centre to the instrument. Readings are fetched for the ground around an address when a report is run and held afterwards, so the stations on a page are the ones within 30 miles that the archive holds readings from.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about what reached one.
Terms used on this page
Peak gust, sustained wind, independent source: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.