Hail, Lamb
- When
- June 9, 5:45 AM CST
- Where
- Lamb County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.880, -102.280
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 9, 1968
13 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 16
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
13 hail, 3 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Swisher
- When
- June 9, 6:45 AM CST
- Where
- Swisher County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -101.780
Tornado, Armstrong
- When
- June 9, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Armstrong County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 17 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.950, -101.200
Hail, Hockley
- When
- June 9, 9:10 AM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.780, -102.580
Hail, Randall
- When
- June 9, 12:40 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.000, -101.900
Hail, Randall
- When
- June 9, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -101.780
Hail, Lamb
- When
- June 9, 1:07 PM CST
- Where
- Lamb County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.880, -102.280
Tornado, Hemphill
- When
- June 9, 1:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hemphill County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 36.030, -100.270
Hail, Randall
- When
- June 9, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -101.780
Hail, Glasscock
- When
- June 9, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Glasscock County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.080, -101.680
Hail, Hartley
- When
- June 9, 4:52 PM CST
- Where
- Hartley County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -102.280
Tornado, Hale
- When
- June 9, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.300, -101.920
Hail, Hale
- When
- June 9, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -101.900
Hail, Ector
- When
- June 9, 5:54 PM CST
- Where
- Ector County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.900, -102.400
Hail, Midland
- When
- June 9, 6:22 PM CST
- Where
- Midland County
- Measured
- 2.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.900, -102.180
Hail, Gray
- When
- June 9, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Gray County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -100.680
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
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 9, 1968
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, June 9, 1968
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Minnesota, June 9, 1968
- Hail in Kansas, June 9, 1968
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 9, 1968
- Hail and Damaging Wind in New York, June 9, 1968
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, June 9, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 9, 1968
- Tornado in Wyoming, June 9, 1968
- Damaging Wind in Vermont, June 9, 1968
- Hail in Iowa, June 9, 1968
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: 10135696, 10135697, 10135698, 10135699, 10135700, 10135701, 10135702, 10135703, 10135704, 10135705, 10135706, 10135707, 10135708, 10135922, 10135923, 10135924.