Tornado, Randall
- When
- April 24, 12:10 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.020, -101.920
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, April 24, 1980
12 hail, 5 tornado, 5 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
- 22
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
12 hail, 5 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Wilbarger
- When
- April 24, 3:40 PM CST
- Where
- Wilbarger County
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -99.280
Hail, Palo Pinto
- When
- April 24, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Palo Pinto County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.780, -98.170
Tornado, Hemphill
- When
- April 24, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hemphill County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.930, -100.300
Tornado, Erath
- When
- April 24, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Erath County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 32.230, -98.330
Thunderstorm Wind, Erath
- When
- April 24, 5:35 PM CST
- Where
- Erath County
- Coordinates
- 32.250, -98.370
Hail, Erath
- When
- April 24, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Erath County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.230, -98.200
Tornado, Erath
- When
- April 24, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Erath County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.230, -98.230
Hail, Somervell
- When
- April 24, 7:15 PM CST
- Where
- Somervell County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.230, -97.750
Hail, Johnson
- When
- April 24, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Johnson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.350, -97.400
Hail, Llano
- When
- April 24, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Llano County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.750, -98.670
Hail, Dallas
- When
- April 24, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.770, -96.780
Thunderstorm Wind, Dallas
- When
- April 24, 8:30 PM CST
- Where
- Dallas County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 32.770, -96.780
Hail, Ellis
- When
- April 24, 8:50 PM CST
- Where
- Ellis County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.530, -96.820
Thunderstorm Wind, Collin
- When
- April 24, 9:10 PM CST
- Where
- Collin County
- Coordinates
- 33.020, -96.620
Hail, Burnet
- When
- April 24, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Burnet County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.830, -98.400
Hail, Burnet
- When
- April 24, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Burnet County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.820, -98.230
Tornado, Hunt
- When
- April 24, 9:55 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.370, -96.030
Thunderstorm Wind, Hunt
- When
- April 24, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Hunt County
- Coordinates
- 33.130, -96.120
Hail, Real
- When
- April 24, 10:20 PM CST
- Where
- Real County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.920, -99.720
Hail, Kerr
- When
- April 24, 10:50 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.050, -99.100
Hail, Kinney
- When
- April 24, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Kinney County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 29.320, -100.420
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
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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: 10127857, 10127858, 10127859, 10127860, 10127861, 10127862, 10127863, 10127864, 10127865, 10127866, 10127867, 10127868, 10127869, 10127870, 10127871, 10127872, 10127873, 10127874, 10127875, 10127876, 10127877, 10127878.