Tornado, Dallam
- When
- May 25, 5:39 PM CST to 5:50 PM CST
- Where
- Dallam County, Texline to 1 mi NE of Texline
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Coordinates
- 36.380, -103.000
Tornado in Texas, May 25, 1996
An active tornadic day with minimum hail reports. The tornado south of Adrian did about $75K in damage to two houses and barns and blew down a dozen power poles.
Where it happened
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- 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
- $200,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
An active tornadic day with minimum hail reports. The tornado south of Adrian did about $75K in damage to two houses and barns and blew down a dozen power poles. The second tornado near Texline hit the Shumbarger Ranch damaging barns, a trailer house and feed lot. This damage was estimated at $200K and the tornado tracks are also estimated.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Tornado in Texas, May 25, 1996
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, May 25, 1996
- Hail in Mississippi, May 25, 1996
- Hail in Texas, May 25, 1996
- Tornado in Illinois, May 25, 1996
- Hail in New Mexico, May 25, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 25, 1996
- Hail in Texas, May 25, 1996
- Tornado in Oklahoma, May 25, 1996
- Hail in Texas, May 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 25, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 25, 1996
More
Every storm in Texas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1996Warnings in Texas, May 1996
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: 5578892.