Hail, Tom Green
- When
- May 13, 2:42 AM CST
- Where
- Tom Green County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -100.500
Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 13, 1957
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Fannin
- When
- May 13, 7:25 AM CST
- Where
- Fannin County
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -96.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Lamar
- When
- May 13, 8:15 AM CST
- Where
- Lamar County
- Coordinates
- 33.700, -95.580
Tornado, Harrison
- When
- May 13, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Harrison County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.500, -94.300
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, May 13, 1957
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 13, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, May 13, 1957
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 13, 1957
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, May 13, 1957
- Tornado in Florida, May 13, 1957
- Tornadoes in Kansas, May 13, 1957
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, May 13, 1957
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, May 13, 1957
- Hail in California, May 13, 1957
More
Every storm in Texas in 1957Every state in 1957This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1957
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: 10118912, 10118913, 10118914, 10118915.