Thunderstorm Wind, Liberty
- When
- May 29, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Liberty County
- Coordinates
- 30.150, -94.730
Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 29, 1987
7 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
- 3
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
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
7 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Kerr
- When
- May 29, 12:47 PM CST
- Where
- Kerr County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 30.080, -99.330
Tornado, Parmer
- When
- May 29, 4:40 PM CST
- Where
- Parmer County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.750, -102.580
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- May 29, 4:53 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 110 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.800, -101.880
Tornado, Dawson
- When
- May 29, 5:10 PM CST
- Where
- Dawson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Coordinates
- 32.730, -101.920
Tornado, Lubbock
- When
- May 29, 5:25 PM CST
- Where
- Lubbock County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 80 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 33.500, -102.030
Tornado, Hockley
- When
- May 29, 5:39 PM CST
- Where
- Hockley County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.520, -102.080
Tornado, Castro
- When
- May 29, 7:45 PM CST
- Where
- Castro County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 60 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -102.480
Tornado, Castro
- When
- May 29, 9:42 PM CST
- Where
- Castro County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.550, -102.180
What these are
- 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.
- 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
- Tornado in Utah, May 29, 1987
- Damaging Winds in New York, May 29, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, May 29, 1987
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Wisconsin, May 29, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, May 29, 1987
- Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, May 29, 1987
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Vermont, May 29, 1987
- Tornado in Nebraska, May 29, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, May 29, 1987
- Hail in South Carolina, May 29, 1987
- Hail in Georgia, May 29, 1987
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, May 29, 1987
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: 10142281, 10142282, 10142283, 10142284, 10142285, 10142286, 10142287, 10142288, 10142289.