Tornado, Gillespie
- When
- May 28, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gillespie County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.280, -98.850
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 28, 1962
8 hail, 3 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 13
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, 2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Gillespie
- When
- May 28, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gillespie County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.280, -98.850
Hail, Tom Green
- When
- May 28, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Tom Green County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -100.500
Hail, Floyd
- When
- May 28, 3:35 PM CST
- Where
- Floyd County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -101.400
Hail, Throckmorton
- When
- May 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Throckmorton County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.200, -99.180
Thunderstorm Wind, Runnels
- When
- May 28, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Runnels County
- Coordinates
- 31.700, -100.000
Hail, Wichita
- When
- May 28, 4:41 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.080, -98.680
Hail, Edwards
- When
- May 28, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Edwards County
- Measured
- 4.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.980, -100.180
Hail, Coleman
- When
- May 28, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Coleman County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.780, -99.280
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 28, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.380, -99.780
Hail, Kerr
- When
- May 28, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.180, -99.280
Thunderstorm Wind, Dallas
- When
- May 28, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Coordinates
- 32.700, -96.780
Tornado, Kerr
- When
- May 28, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 30.050, -99.050
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.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 28, 1962
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 28, 1962
- Tornadoes in Illinois, May 28, 1962
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 28, 1962
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Missouri, May 28, 1962
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Nebraska, May 28, 1962
- Tornado in Colorado, May 28, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 28, 1962
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 28, 1962
- Tornadoes in Wyoming, May 28, 1962
- Hail in South Carolina, May 28, 1962
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: 10121562, 10121563, 10121564, 10121565, 10121566, 10121567, 10121568, 10121569, 10121570, 10121571, 10121572, 10121573, 10121574.