Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 8:45 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.200, -98.180
Tornadoes in Texas, September 16, 1988
14 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
- 1
- Property damage
- $4.8 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 14
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
14 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 9:00 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 26.180, -98.170
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 9:45 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.180, -98.170
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 10:15 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.170, -98.050
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 10:18 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Coordinates
- 26.200, -98.230
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 11:01 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 3 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.300, -97.980
Tornado, Hidalgo
- When
- September 16, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Hidalgo County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 350 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.300, -98.170
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- September 16, 12:30 PM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 25.920, -97.500
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- September 16, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 26.180, -97.700
Tornado, Cameron
- When
- September 16, 2:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cameron County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $2.5 million
- Coordinates
- 26.180, -97.700
Tornado, Goliad
- When
- September 16, 4:04 PM CST
- Where
- Goliad County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 28.750, -97.380
Tornado, Nueces
- When
- September 16, 4:30 PM CST
- Where
- Nueces County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 27.780, -97.420
Tornado, Nueces
- When
- September 16, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Nueces County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 27.700, -97.270
Tornado, Bee
- When
- September 16, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bee County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.8 mi
- Path width
- 23 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 28.620, -97.800
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
More
Every storm in Texas in 1988Every state in 1988This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1988Warnings in Texas, September 1988
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: 10138388, 10138389, 10138390, 10138391, 10138392, 10138393, 10138394, 10138395, 10139246, 10139247, 10139248, 10139249, 10139250, 10139251.