Tornado, Randall
- When
- August 7, 4:10 PM CST to 4:15 PM CST
- Where
- Randall County, 12 mi SE of Amarillo
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -101.670
Tornado in Texas, August 7, 1998
A landspout was observed and reported during the early evening hours. The track was estimated.
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 AMA wrote it up.
A landspout was observed and reported during the early evening hours. The track was 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
- Flash Flood and Flood in Georgia, August 7 to 14, 1998
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, August 7, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, August 7, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nevada, August 7, 1998
- Hail in Arizona, August 7, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Tennessee, August 7, 1998
- Flood in Kentucky, August 7, 1998
- Flood in Illinois, August 7, 1998
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 7, 1998
- Heavy Rain in Puerto Rico, August 7, 1998
- Funnel Cloud in Florida, August 7, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, August 7, 1998
More
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1998Warnings in Texas, August 1998
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: 5664951.