Hail, Hansford
- When
- May 26, 4:20 PM CST
- Where
- Hansford County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.070, -101.480
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 26, 1981
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
- None recorded
- 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, Carson
- When
- May 26, 5:58 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -101.180
Tornado, Briscoe
- When
- May 26, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Briscoe County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.370, -101.080
Tornado, Briscoe
- When
- May 26, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Briscoe County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.330, -101.020
Hail, Wood
- When
- May 26, 7:35 PM CST
- Where
- Wood County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.470, -101.050
Tornado, Motley
- When
- May 26, 8:54 PM CST
- Where
- Motley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -100.820
Tornado, Cottle
- When
- May 26, 9:40 PM CST
- Where
- Cottle County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.150, -101.300
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
Every storm in Texas in 1981Every state in 1981This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1981
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: 10128125, 10128126, 10128127, 10128128, 10128129, 10128130, 10128131.