Tornado, Garza
- When
- April 14, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Garza County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.080, -101.380
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 14, 1976
4 hail, 2 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
- 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
4 hail, 2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hall
- When
- April 14, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.720, -100.530
Hail, Garza
- When
- April 14, 6:44 PM CST
- Where
- Garza County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.070, -101.530
Hail, Terry
- When
- April 14, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Terry County
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.370, -102.180
Tornado, Dickens
- When
- April 14, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Dickens County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 33.480, -100.850
Hail, Lubbock
- When
- April 14, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.530, -101.650
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 14, 1976
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, April 14, 1976
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, April 14, 1976
- Tornadoes in Minnesota, April 14, 1976
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, April 14, 1976
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, April 14, 1976
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 14, 1976
More
Every storm in Texas in 1976Every state in 1976This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1976
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: 10128395, 10128396, 10128397, 10128398, 10128399, 10128400.