Hail, Wind & Tornado Reports in Swisher County, TX

Hail Report Description: Report from mPING: Half Dollar (1.25 in.).

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: Report from mPING: Quarter (1.00 in.).

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

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: DELAYED REPORT.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: SO REPORT RELAYED BY EM.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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

Hail Report Description: MPING REPORT

Hail Report Description: TIME ESTIMATED BY RADAR

Hail Report Description: TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR

Hail Report Description: TIME ESTIMATED FROM RADAR

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Hail Report Description: DELAYED REPORT RELAYED FROM WFO AMA.

Hail Report Description: RELAYED FROM NWS AMA VIA NWS CHAT.

Wind Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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: Gusts of 59 to 74 mph from 1207 AM to 1219 AM. Measured by the West Texas Mesonet.

Wind Report Description: Measured by the West Texas Mesonet.

Wind Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Wind Report Description: Mesonet station 106 Happy 1E.

Wind Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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: FM 1424 impassable due to downed power poles. Time estimated. Relayed by TV media.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet report.

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

Wind Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

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: No National Weather Service description provided.

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: Report from mPING: 1-inch tree limbs broken; Shingles blown off.

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet.

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.

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

Wind Report Description: West Texas Mesonet at Vigo Park.

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: MULTIPLE STORM CHASER REPORTS VIA SOCIAL MEDIA OF WHAT APPEARS TO BE A LARGE TORNADO WEST OF HAPPY.

Tornado Report Description: DELAYED REPORT. VIDEO DOCUMENTION BY STORM CHASERS. NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOUND BROKEN POWER POLES NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CR B AND CR 16. TORNADO CROSSED INTO RANDALL COUNTY.

Tornado Report Description: RAIN WRAPPED TORNADO

Tornado Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Tornado Report Description: VIA TWITTER PIC

Tornado Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Tornado Report Description: Storm chasers witnessed a tornado north of Kress at 14:45 CST. The brief tornado remained in open fields just east of Interstate 27, near the intersection of County Roads Z and 16. Local officials reported that the tornado caused no damage.

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: Storm chasers, including a meteorologist from the National Weather Service Warning Decision Training Branch, observed a large tornado that moved east-northeast just south of the Swisher and Armstrong County line approximately fifteen miles east of Happy. The tornado remained over open country and no damage was reported.

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: A large and long-tracked tornado cut a path of damage twenty-nine miles in length and at times nearly three-quarters of a mile wide across portions of Lamb, Hale, Castro and Swisher Counties between 17:57 and 18:36 CST on the 21st. Total damages from the tornado were estimated to exceed $1.2 million, and one person was injured.|The tornado was in the final stages of its life cycle as it crossed into extreme southwestern Swisher County at 18:33 CST. Storm chasers documented an extended rope-out phase before the tornado finally dissipated over cotton fields in southwestern Swisher County at 18:36 CST. |Reports in local newspapers indicated that at least one center pivot irrigation system was heavily damaged west of Kress.|Damage caused by the tornado east of Olton (Lamb County) supported an EF-2 rating with winds estimated between 110 and 120 mph.

Tornado Report Description: Skywarn spotters and the public observed a tornado southeast of Claytonville. The tornado developed beneath a rapidly developing supercell storm, and remained over open fields in extreme southeastern Swisher County before moving northeastward into Briscoe County. No damage was reported.

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: Residents of Happy observed a landspout tornado just southwest of the city around 17:20 CST on the afternoon of the 20th. The tornado was associated with otherwise non-severe convection over the extreme southern Texas Panhandle. No damage occurred as the tornado remained over open farm land.

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

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 brief tornado touchdown was reported by a storm chaser.

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

Tornado Report Description: The tornado that went through Happy dissipated over southern Randall County. Shortly after this dissipation, the same supercell produced another tornado just to the south of the previous tornado's track. This tornado was reported by a storm chaser. An NWS storm survey team found snapped power poles and downed power lines on county roads just south of Farm-to-Market Road 1075, consistent with this report.

Tornado Report Description: Storm chaser video indicated that shortly after the large tornado dissipated, another tornado developed just west of town. This tornado tore a 150-yard wide path across the southern part of town. Fifteen homes were destroyed, including at least ten mobile homes, another seventeen received major damage, and eighteen others received minor damage. The storm survey team estimated wind speeds associated with the damage to be in the 115 to 130 mph range. Two fatalities occurred in a mobile home on the southeast side of town; the mobile home was rolled about 50 yards and destroyed. Four injuries also occurred in mobile homes that were in the same area. The church on the west side of town lost 120 feet of its roof and 30 vehicles, including two tractor trailers, were damaged or destroyed. Seventy five utility and telephone poles were snapped. The tornado crossed I-27 and continued to produce significant damage east of town as it struck a home two miles east of Happy on Farm-to-Market Road 1075. Before crossing into southern Randall County about three miles east of Happy, the tornado produced major damage to a second home on Farm-to-Market Road 1075.

Tornado Report Description: A large tornado developed west of town. It moved eastward across open country and thus the storm survey team, made up of both NWS personnel and a Texas Tech University wind engineer, could only find damage to power poles and to fence posts. Based on storm chaser video, the large tornado weakened and finally dissipated just west of Happy.

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

Tornado Report Description: A brief weak tornado was reported east of Kress at 1600CST by Amarillo TV station chase team.

Tornado Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Tornado Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.

Tornado Report Description: No National Weather Service description provided.