Hail,
- When
- April 2, 12:00 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.880, -95.500
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 2, 1958
8 hail, 3 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
- 1
- Injuries
- 15
- Property damage
- $525,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 11
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
8 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Wichita
- When
- April 2, 5:26 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.880, -98.680
Hail, Wichita
- When
- April 2, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -98.500
Tornado, Wichita
- When
- April 2, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 333 yd
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 14 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 33.900, -98.500
Hail, Wichita
- When
- April 2, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -98.500
Tornado, Clay
- When
- April 2, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 12.1 mi
- Path width
- 333 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 33.900, -98.430
Hail, Clay
- When
- April 2, 6:14 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -98.180
Hail, Clay
- When
- April 2, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -98.280
Tornado, Montague
- When
- April 2, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Montague County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 18.2 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.650, -97.900
Hail, Montague
- When
- April 2, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Montague County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -97.900
Hail, Denton
- When
- April 2, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Denton County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.000, -97.280
The people who died
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tornado, Wichita | 1958-04-02 | Direct |
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
More
Every storm in Texas in 1958Every state in 1958This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1958
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: 10121193, 10121194, 10121195, 10121196, 10121197, 10121198, 10121199, 10121200, 10121201, 10122053, 10122054.