Tornado, Ward
- When
- April 19, 12:25 PM CST
- Where
- Ward County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.420, -102.950
Tornadoes in Texas, April 19, 1977
13 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
- 18
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 13
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 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Ward
- When
- April 19, 12:25 PM CST
- Where
- Ward County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 4.3 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 18 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 31.420, -102.930
Tornado, Ward
- When
- April 19, 1:10 PM CST
- Where
- Ward County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.450, -102.900
Tornado, Yoakum
- When
- April 19, 1:50 PM CST
- Where
- Yoakum County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.130, -103.000
Tornado, Ector
- When
- April 19, 2:10 PM CST
- Where
- Ector County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.770, -102.370
Tornado, Midland
- When
- April 19, 2:45 PM CST
- Where
- Midland County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 31.820, -102.200
Tornado, Donley
- When
- April 19, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Donley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.820, -101.050
Tornado, Yoakum
- When
- April 19, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Yoakum County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 32.970, -102.980
Tornado, Yoakum
- When
- April 19, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Yoakum County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.070, -102.850
Tornado, Hall
- When
- April 19, 4:05 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 34.720, -100.530
Tornado, Gaines
- When
- April 19, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Gaines County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.930, -102.550
Tornado, Swisher
- When
- April 19, 6:12 PM CST
- Where
- Swisher County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.400, -101.930
Tornado, Wichita
- When
- April 19, 10:42 PM CST
- Where
- Wichita County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.850, -98.830
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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: 10128301, 10128302, 10128303, 10128304, 10128305, 10129149, 10129150, 10129151, 10129152, 10129153, 10129154, 10129155, 10129368.