Tornado, Hockley
- When
- September 22, 4:14 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.680, -102.370
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, September 22, 1986
2 tornado, 2 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
- 4
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
2 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Hockley
- When
- September 22, 5:08 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.800, -102.420
Hail, Hockley
- When
- September 22, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.600, -102.270
Tornado, Hockley
- When
- September 22, 6:18 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.430, -102.330
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, September 22, 1986
- Tornado and Hail in Iowa, September 22, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, September 22, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Michigan, September 22, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Missouri, September 22, 1986
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, September 22, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, September 22, 1986
- Hail in Mississippi, September 22, 1986
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, September 22, 1986
More
Every storm in Texas in 1986Every state in 1986This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1986Warnings in Texas, September 1986
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: 10142373, 10142374, 10142588, 10142589.