Hail, Erath
- When
- April 12, 12:10 AM CST
- Where
- Erath County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.080, -98.280
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 12, 1955
4 tornado, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 7
- Property damage
- $253,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Travis
- When
- April 12, 8:35 AM CST
- Where
- Travis County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.280, -97.680
Tornado, Anderson
- When
- April 12, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Anderson County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 5.6 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 7 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.050, -95.520
Tornado, Houston
- When
- April 12, 11:55 AM CST
- Where
- Houston County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -95.480
Tornado, Cherokee
- When
- April 12, 12:15 PM CST
- Where
- Cherokee County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 31.770, -95.120
Tornado, Taylor
- When
- April 12, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.480, -100.100
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
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The same day elsewhere
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10119625, 10119626, 10119627, 10119628, 10119629, 10119630.