Tornado, Lavaca
- When
- May 16, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Lavaca County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 29.270, -96.700
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 16, 1972
5 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- $30,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Lavaca
- When
- May 16, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Lavaca County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 29.270, -96.700
Tornado, Lavaca
- When
- May 16, 8:30 AM CST
- Where
- Lavaca County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 29.270, -96.700
Tornado, Gillespie
- When
- May 16, 2:15 PM CST
- Where
- Gillespie County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 30.170, -98.750
Tornado, Guadalupe
- When
- May 16, 3:50 PM CST
- Where
- Guadalupe County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.6 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 29.580, -97.970
Hail, Dallas
- When
- May 16, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.780, -96.900
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 10132940, 10132941, 10132942, 10132943, 10132944, 10132945.