Hail, Potter
- When
- July 1, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -101.680
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, July 1, 1972
2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 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
- 4
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 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Hockley
- When
- July 1, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Measured
- 87 kt (100 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -102.400
Tornado, Lubbock
- When
- July 1, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.580, -101.830
Tornado, Lubbock
- When
- July 1, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.430, -102.030
What these are
- 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.
- 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 Arkansas, July 1, 1972
- Tornadoes in Iowa, July 1, 1972
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, July 1, 1972
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, July 1, 1972
- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, July 1, 1972
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 1, 1972
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, July 1, 1972
- Hail in Minnesota, July 1, 1972
- Hail in Mississippi, July 1, 1972
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 1, 1972
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, July 1, 1972
- Hail in Tennessee, July 1, 1972
More
Every storm in Texas in 1972Every state in 1972This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1972
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: 10134086, 10134087, 10134088, 10134089.