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Texas Severe Weather Outlook
Friday, Oct 9: Texas has no severe risk in the outlook through Sunday.
The Storm Prediction Center's outlook for Texas over the next three days, the SevereWX forecast for each Texas city we cover, and what a typical severe weather year looks like here.
SPC outlook for Texas
- Day 1 (Friday, October 9): No severe risk
- Day 2 (Saturday, October 10): No severe risk
- Day 3 (Sunday, October 11): No severe risk
Texas city forecasts
- Amarillo, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Lubbock, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Dallas, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Fort Worth, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Waco, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Austin, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
- Houston, TX severe weather forecast: today No Severe Threat, tomorrow No Severe Threat, Day 3 No Severe Threat
Severe weather in Texas, by the numbers
Texas averages 129.8 tornadoes a year (1996–2025), about 12 of them rated EF2 or stronger.
60% of them touch down between April and June, and May alone accounts for 29%. The busiest year on record in that span was 2015, with 242.
Storm reports average about 1,285 for large hail a year (197.9 of them 2 inches or larger) and 928 for damaging wind (2016–2025).
Source: NOAA Storm Prediction Center severe weather database. Tornadoes are counted in the state where they began. One storm can produce many reports. spc.noaa.gov