Tornado, Williamson
- When
- July 4, 12:00 PM CST to 12:02 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County, 5 mi E of Round Rock
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $30,000
- Reported by
- BROADCAST MEDIA
- Coordinates
- 30.500, -97.600
Tornado in Texas, July 4, 1998
A small and very brief tornado touched down near a group picnicking at a ranch just east of Round Rock. The tornado knocked trailers into nearby vehicles and scattered pieces of wood from a pile before dissipating.
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
- $30,000
- 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 EWX wrote it up.
A small and very brief tornado touched down near a group picnicking at a ranch just east of Round Rock. The tornado knocked trailers into nearby vehicles and scattered pieces of wood from a pile before dissipating.
The radar
The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 32 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 17:57 UTC.
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
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 4, 1998
- Tornado and Flash Flooding in Montana, July 4, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flood in North Dakota, July 4 to 20, 1998
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Montana, July 4, 1998
- Tornado in Indiana, July 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind and Heavy Rain in Kansas, July 4, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 4, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Texas, July 4, 1998
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 4, 1998
- Hail in Nebraska, July 4, 1998
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, July 4, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Louisiana, July 4, 1998
More
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1998Warnings in Texas, July 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: 5658352.