Tornado, Carson
- When
- August 17, 3:53 PM CST
- Where
- Carson County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.300, -101.380
Tornado in Texas, August 17, 1988
1 tornado, 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
- 1
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
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in New Jersey, August 17, 1988
- Tornado and Hail in Michigan, August 17, 1988
- Tornado in Colorado, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 17, 1988
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Winds in Montana, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 17, 1988
- Damaging Wind in Delaware, August 17, 1988
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: 10138355.