Tornado, Schleicher
- When
- March 25, 2:58 AM CST
- Where
- Schleicher County, 15 mi NE of Eldorado
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 15 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.000, -100.430
Tornado in Texas, March 25, 1997
A supercell thunderstorm dropped golfball-sized hail and a weak tornado over northern Schleicher County.
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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS SJT wrote it up.
A supercell thunderstorm dropped golfball-sized hail and a weak tornado over northern Schleicher County.
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
- High Wind in Ohio, March 25, 1997
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 25, 1997
- Flooding in Minnesota, March 25 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Texas, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Flash Flood in Texas, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
- Hail in Oklahoma, March 25, 1997
More
Every storm in Texas in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1997Warnings in Texas, March 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: 5596119.