Tornado, Roberts
- When
- June 12, 8:10 PM CST to 8:12 PM CST
- Where
- Roberts County, 5 mi N of Miami
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.770, -100.630
Brief touchdown over open country and tornado track was estimated.
Tornado and Flash Flood in Texas, June 12, 1997
Severe thunderstorms across the northern and eastern sections of the Texas Panhandle produced large hail along with damaging winds and a few tornadoes. Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding over the eastern Texas Panhandle.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS AMA wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms across the northern and eastern sections of the Texas Panhandle produced large hail along with damaging winds and a few tornadoes. Heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding over the eastern Texas Panhandle.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Flash Flood, Wheeler
- When
- June 12, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Wheeler County, 5 mi N of Kelton
- Coordinates
- 35.401, -100.270 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash flooding of Highway 152 north of Kelton.
Hail, Hemphill
- When
- June 12, 8:21 PM CST to 8:23 PM CST
- Where
- Hemphill County, Glazier to Canadian
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.000, -100.230
Hail, Lipscomb
- When
- June 12, 8:26 PM CST
- Where
- Lipscomb County, Higgins
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.120, -100.020
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.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
- 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
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Flash Flood and Hail in Oklahoma, June 12 to 13, 1997
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Tornado in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Wyoming, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 12, 1997
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 12, 1997
- Flooding in Indiana, June 12, 1997
- Hail in Texas, June 12, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, June 12, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, June 1997
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: 5609502, 5609503, 5609504, 5609506.