Tornado, Dallas
- When
- April 20, 12:55 AM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 77 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.650, -96.920
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 20, 1977
9 hail, 3 tornado, 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
- $25,000
- 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
9 hail, 3 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Matagorda
- When
- April 20, 10:50 AM CST
- Where
- Matagorda County
- Measured
- 68 kt (78 mph)
- Coordinates
- 28.720, -96.250
Hail, El Paso
- When
- April 20, 11:40 AM CST
- Where
- El Paso County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.780, -106.430
Tornado, Callahan
- When
- April 20, 3:35 PM CST
- Where
- Callahan County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 9.7 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.400, -99.300
Hail, Uvalde
- When
- April 20, 3:45 PM CST
- Where
- Uvalde County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.320, -99.470
Hail, McCulloch
- When
- April 20, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCulloch County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.130, -99.330
Tornado, Coleman
- When
- April 20, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Coleman County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.630, -99.570
Hail, Baylor
- When
- April 20, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Baylor County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.330, -99.220
Hail, Mitchell
- When
- April 20, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Mitchell County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.420, -100.720
Hail, Haskell
- When
- April 20, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.750
Hail, Nolan
- When
- April 20, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Nolan County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.470, -100.400
Hail, Nolan
- When
- April 20, 7:23 PM CST
- Where
- Nolan County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.470, -100.370
Hail, Hidalgo
- When
- April 20, 8:47 PM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 26.170, -98.230
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.
- 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.
- 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
More
Every storm in Texas in 1977Every state in 1977This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1977
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: 10129369, 10129370, 10129371, 10129372, 10129373, 10129374, 10129375, 10129376, 10129377, 10129378, 10129379, 10129380, 10129381.