Tornado, Castro
- When
- August 23, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Castro County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.680, -102.100
Tornado and Hail in Texas, August 23, 1977
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 2
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
1 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hale
- When
- August 23, 9:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -101.720
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
- Tornado and Hail in Oklahoma, August 23, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 23, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, August 23, 1977
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 23, 1977
- Hail in Indiana, August 23, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 23, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 23, 1977
- Hail in Kentucky, August 23, 1977
- Hail in Ohio, August 23, 1977
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: 10128613, 10128614.