Hail, Ector
- When
- May 25, 3:10 PM CST
- Where
- Ector County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.780, -102.400
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 25, 1965
5 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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
5 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Midland
- When
- May 25, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Midland County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.900, -102.180
Tornado, Motley
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Motley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 8.7 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 33.900, -100.930
Hail, Crosby
- When
- May 25, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Crosby County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -101.180
Hail, Collingsworth
- When
- May 25, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Collingsworth County
- Coordinates
- 34.780, -100.500
Tornado, Mitchell
- When
- May 25, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 32.150, -100.680
Tornado, Hemphill
- When
- May 25, 7:40 PM CST
- Where
- Hemphill County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 36.050, -100.420
Hail, Taylor
- When
- May 25, 8:33 PM CST
- Where
- Taylor County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.280, -99.900
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 25, 1965
- Tornado in Wisconsin, May 25, 1965
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, May 25, 1965
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 25, 1965
- Tornado in Missouri, May 25, 1965
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 25, 1965
- Hail in Idaho, May 25, 1965
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 25, 1965
More
Every storm in Texas in 1965Every state in 1965This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1965
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: 10135639, 10135640, 10135641, 10135642, 10135643, 10135644, 10135645, 10135646.