Tornado, Wichita
- When
- July 21, 5:59 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 517 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.920, -98.570
Tornadoes in Texas, July 21, 1961
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Ector
- When
- July 21, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Ector County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.920, -102.380
What these are
- 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 Wind in Illinois, July 21, 1961
- Tornadoes in Indiana, July 21, 1961
- Tornado in Massachusetts, July 21, 1961
- Tornado in New Hampshire, July 21, 1961
- Tornado in Vermont, July 21, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, July 21, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Maine, July 21, 1961
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, July 21, 1961
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 21, 1961
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: 10120317, 10120318.