Hail, Lubbock
- When
- May 19, 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.430, -101.650
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 19, 1978
4 tornado, 3 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
- $28,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 7
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 tornado, 3 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Ochiltree
- When
- May 19, 1:28 PM CST
- Where
- Ochiltree County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.400, -100.600
Tornado, Hale
- When
- May 19, 4:23 PM CST
- Where
- Hale County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -101.720
Tornado, Swisher
- When
- May 19, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Swisher County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.370, -101.750
Tornado, Hall
- When
- May 19, 6:40 PM CST
- Where
- Hall County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 6.1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.520, -100.600
Tornado, Cottle
- When
- May 19, 6:50 PM CST
- Where
- Cottle County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 8.9 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 34.020, -100.300
Hail, Cottle
- When
- May 19, 6:54 PM CST
- Where
- Cottle County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.020, -100.300
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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: 10128675, 10128676, 10128677, 10128678, 10128679, 10128680, 10128681.