Hail, Wind & Tornado Reports in and near Tulia, TX

Hail Report Description: Wind-driven hail blew out several windows in town. Lots of quarter to golf ball size hail. Time estimated. Relayed by TV media.

Hail Report Description: Baseball size hail observed by storm chaser on live video feed. Spotter was about 1 mile east of Vigo Park.

Hail Report Description: Corrects previous hail report from 10 NW Mackenzie Reservoir. Giant hail observed by Broadcast Media chaser 3 miles west-northwest of Vigo Park. The hail was 5+ inches in diameter. The hail appeared to be as long as a 16 oz Monster Nitro Energy Drink can.

Hail Report Description: Delayed report with picture of 1 inch hailstone.

Hail Report Description: QUARTER TO GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL REPORTED BY THE SILVERTON VFD.

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Hail Report Description: SO REPORT RELAYED BY EM.

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Hail Report Description: SOCIAL MEDIA PHOTO OF GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL.

Hail Report Description: TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR

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Hail Report Description: MOSTLY PEA SIZED HAIL... FEW AS LARGE AS QUARTERS

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Hail Report Description: An emergency manager estimated golf ball size hail 15 miles northeast of Tulia. Up to 4.5 inches of smaller hail accumulated and damaged area crops. Monetary losses from the hail were unavailable.

Hail Report Description: The Tulia Police Department estimated golf ball size hail. No mention of damage was provided.

Hail Report Description: Law enforcement estimated hail up to quarter size with winds of 45-50 mph and zero visibility in torrential rain.

Hail Report Description: The Tulia police department reported hail ranging from nickel to quarter size in Tulia. The hail was accompanied by severe wind gusts.

Hail Report Description: Another severe thunderstorm tracked northeastward from central Hale County over the central and eastern portions of Swisher County. This storm produced a swath of quarter size hail from southeast of Tulia to northeast of the city per reports from the National Severe Storms Laboratory SHAVE project.

Hail Report Description: The Tulia Police Department reported quarter size hail in Tulia just before 17:20 CST.

Hail Report Description: A National Weather Service cooperative observer reported nickel size hail and wind gusts estimated near 60 mph at Vigo Park. No damage was reported.

Hail Report Description: A second severe storm impacted the Tulia area around 17:30 CST. Penny size hail was reported just northeast of the city by an off-duty National Weather Service meteorologist.

Hail Report Description: Multiple reports of large hail were received from near Tulia to Vigo Park. Reports indicated that quarter to golfball size hail damaged several vehicles in Tulia between 16:10 CST and 16:25 CST. By 16:37 CST penny size hail was reported in Vigo Park.

Hail Report Description: Multiple reports from local officials and the public indicated that large hail fell in Tulia around 05:15 CST. The hail stones reportedly ranged in size from nickels to quarters.

Hail Report Description: Golf ball size hail was reported by the Tulia Police Department south of Tulia on Interstate 27.

Hail Report Description: Meteorologists from the National Severe Storms Laboratory reported three inch diameter hail along Interstate 27 north-northwest of Tulia. Very large hail in the Tulia area resulted in damage to vehicles traveling along Interstate 27. In addition, minor damage to young cotton crops was reported.

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Wind Report Description: Measured by the TTU mesonet.

Wind Report Description: Also gusted to 62 mph at 1231 AM. Measured by West Texas Mesonet.

Wind Report Description: Gusts of 59 to 67 mph from 1228 AM to 1230 AM. Measured by West Texas Mesonet.

Wind Report Description: Measured by the West Texas Mesonet.

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Wind Report Description: Mesonet station 95 Vigo Park.

Wind Report Description: Also gusted to 61 mph at 1222 am and 60 mph at 1224 am. Mesonet station 22 Tulia 2NE.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet report. Additional 58 mph gust also occurred at 3:20 pm CDT.

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Wind Report Description: Total of 5 minutes of severe gusts.

Wind Report Description: WTM gusted to 78 MPH at 2:33 AM. Severe gusts from 2:33AM through 2:42AM.

Wind Report Description: Measured by TTU mesonet.

Wind Report Description: Shed attached to quonset hut destroyed. Picture of damage relayed by media. Time estimated from radar.

Wind Report Description: Large trees snapped and missing lawn furniture.

Wind Report Description: Metal awning roof torn off. Tree branches broken. Corrugated metal tangled.

Wind Report Description: Severe gusts continued through 8:44 pm.

Wind Report Description: Severe gusts began at 555 AM and ended at 557 AM with the highest gust of 64 mph at 556 AM.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet report.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet report. Additional severe gust at 6:13p.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet at Vigo Park.

Wind Report Description: WEST TEXAS MESONET

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Wind Report Description: WEST TEXAS MESONET REPORTED GUSTS FROM 59 TO 68 MPH BETWEEN 5:45 AND 5:50 PM. THE PEAK GUST OF 68 MPH OCCURRED AT BOTH 5:48 AND 5:49 PM. LITTLE TO NO LIGHTNING OCCURRED WITH THE WEAKENING SHOWER THAT PRODUCED THE WIND.

Wind Report Description: MEASURED BY THE WEST TEXAS MESONET WITH A WEAK HIGH-BASED SHOWER THAT OCCASIONALLY HAD A LITTLE LIGHTNING

Wind Report Description: DELAYED REPORT OF LARGE TREE FALLEN SOUTH OF TULIA. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR...

Wind Report Description: WEST TEXAS MESONET REPORTED OCCASIONAL SEVERE GUSTS BETWEEN 7:19 PM AND 7:31 PM.

Wind Report Description: WEST TEXAS MESONET REPORTED SEVERE GUSTS FROM 6:53 PM THROUGH 7:22 PM. SEVERAL PEAK GUSTS OF 79 MPH WERE REPORTED AT 7:06 AND 7:07 PM AS WELL.

Wind Report Description: DELAYED REPORT OF LARGE TREE FALLEN SOUTH OF TULIA. TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR... **CORRECTION CHANGE TIME FROM AM TO PM**

Tornado Report Description: SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO OF A TORNADO EAST NORTHEAST OF TULIA IN AN OPEN FIELD. LOCATION ESTIMATED BY RADAR WITH NO KNOWN DAMAGE.

Tornado Report Description: RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO

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Tornado Report Description: VIA TWITTER PIC

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Tornado Report Description: Multiple employees at a cattle feed yard in rural southwestern Swisher County observed a tornado that developed over open country southwest of Tulia. No damage was reported. The tornado was spawned by the same storm that resulted in tornadic damage near Nazareth (Castro County) during the previous hour.

Tornado Report Description: The fourth tornado in the Olton-Edmonson-Tulia family occurred in north-central Swisher County. The tornado reportedly appeared visually as a large cone-shaped tornado that persisted for five minutes as it impacted mainly rural areas northeast of Tulia and west of Vigo Park. One large barn was heavily damaged by the tornado in the vicinity of Farm to Market Road 2698/146.

Tornado Report Description: A strong tornado delivered a crippling impact on the local economy of Tulia, Texas, when it devastated industrial and residential sections of the small community of 5,000 residents around 19:00 CST on the 21st. A two block wide swath of damage paralleled U.S. Highway 87 in west Tulia for fifteen blocks. Three persons were treated at area hospitals for injuries, almost thirty homes sustained damage or were destroyed along with twenty businesses, and approximately five hundred people were displaced or made homeless.|Local officials and newspaper accounts indicated that several of the businesses that were heavily damaged during the tornado served as staples to the Tulia economy prior to the storm. U.S. President George W. Bush declared Swisher County a federal disaster area on May 1, 2007. |This destructive tornado developed near a power plant at the intersection of Broadway Street and U.S. Highway 87 in west Tulia at 18:57 CST. The tornado moved north and caused extensive damage to a local supermarket at the intersection of U.S. Highway 87 and |Sixth Street. A large portion of the roof was removed on the east side of the structure, and one exterior wall collapsed inward. Smaller sections of two additional exterior walls additionally collapsed. |A local auto dealership, located near the supermarket, also sustained a large amount of structural and inventory damage. Forty-one vehicles were damaged by flying debris, and a motor home on the property was overturned. A large overhead door on the east side of the structure's show room failed, resulting in the failure of the west wall. A large storage container was blown into the southwest corner of the building and caused the partial collapse of the roof.|Several large metal industrial-style buildings sustained major damage due to the failure of large overhead doors and buckling of roof purlins on the south side of the buildings. One such structure collapsed onto a collection of classic cars, and resulted in a $250,000 loss. |Two storm chasers escaped injuries when they were struck by the tornado along the industrial stretch of U.S. Highway 87. Their vehicle was blown into a brick building, and then a tractor-trailer was blown broadside against the chase vehicle.|Damage also was observed to the north and northeast of the industrial area, with severe damage in residential areas including a mobile home community between Eighth and Ninth Streets just west of Highland Elementary School. Five mobile homes were damaged, with two others completely destroyed. |The most significant residential damage occurred in a subdivision along Northwest Ninth Street through Northwest Eleventh Street. Across this area, a number of homes suffered roof losses. Roofs were totally removed from at least two single-family homes on Tenth Street near Airport Road, with partial exterior wall collapses also noted. |The tornado dissipated near the Tulia Municipal Airport at 19:01 CST.|Meteorologists from the National Weather Service in Lubbock, Texas, Texas Tech University, and engineers from numerous private and governmental agencies surveyed the Tulia damage. All indications suggest that the maximum winds with the Tulia tornado were between 125 and 135 mph. This makes the Tulia tornado an EF-2 tornado on the Enhanced Fujita scale for tornado intensity. The total economic loss is estimated at $2.0 million.|

Tornado Report Description: Law enforcement officials reported a landspout tornado beneath a rapidly developing thunderstorm near the Castro/Swisher County line. The tornado remained in open fields near Texas Highway 86 and no damage was reported.

Tornado Report Description: Trained Spotter and meteorologist/storm chaser from University of Louisiana report of a brief tornado touchdown.

Tornado Report Description: Trained Spotter and meteorologist/storm chaser from University of Louisiana report of a tornado.

Tornado Report Description: Storm chaser reported a tornado over open country.

Tornado Report Description: A tornado that was tracked by storm chasers and law enforcement officials snapped several power poles.

Tornado Report Description: VORTEX reported a brief tornado touchdown in open country. No NWS survey was conducted.

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Tornado Report Description: Large hail and several tornadoes developed across southern Texas Panhandle. The tornado near Dimmitt tore up a garage attached to a home on the south side of town then moved northeast and destroyed an office building at a local grain mill. The tornado proceeded across Highway 86 where it pulled up the pavement and then struck a permanent home. Luckily the residents were in the basement and sustained only minor injuries. The other tornado paths are estimates.

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