Thunderstorm Wind, Tarrant
- When
- June 16, 2:35 AM CST
- Where
- Tarrant County
- Measured
- 65 kt (75 mph)
- Coordinates
- 32.780, -97.080
Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 16, 1966
2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- 3
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 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Hale
- When
- June 16, 7:50 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.100, -102.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Hale
- When
- June 16, 9:04 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Coordinates
- 34.000, -101.900
What these are
- 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.
- 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
- Tornado and Hail in Virginia, June 16, 1966
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, June 16, 1966
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 16, 1966
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 16, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, June 16, 1966
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 16, 1966
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, June 16, 1966
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, June 16, 1966
- Hail in New Mexico, June 16, 1966
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: 10134565, 10134566, 10134567.