Tornado, Grayson
- When
- March 24, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Grayson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 33.420, -96.570
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, March 24, 1962
10 tornado, 1 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
- 8
- Property damage
- $2.8 million
- 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
10 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Grayson
- When
- March 24, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Grayson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 33.420, -96.570
Hail, Grayson
- When
- March 24, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grayson County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.500, -96.500
Tornado, Smith
- When
- March 24, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 40 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.380, -95.320
Tornado, Hopkins
- When
- March 24, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hopkins County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 33.270, -95.730
Tornado, Wood
- When
- March 24, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Wood County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 8 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 32.670, -95.500
Tornado, Smith
- When
- March 24, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.530, -95.380
Tornado, Smith
- When
- March 24, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Smith County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.520, -95.380
Tornado, Camp
- When
- March 24, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Camp County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.980, -94.970
Tornado, Wood
- When
- March 24, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Wood County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.850, -95.180
Tornado, Angelina
- When
- March 24, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Angelina County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 31.330, -94.730
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 10121447, 10121448, 10121449, 10121450, 10121451, 10121452, 10121453, 10121454, 10121455, 10121456, 10121457.