Thunderstorm Wind, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 4:48 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, 4 mi W of Rule
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Coordinates
- 33.180, -99.970
An electric substation was damaged and several utility poles were blown down.
Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 8, 1998
A series of 3 supercells tracked across Haskell and Throckmorton counties, producing a short lived tornado and several reports of up to baseball size hail. The drive-in theatre destroyed in Rule was believed to be the oldest working drive-in in Texas.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- $21,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 16
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 series of 3 supercells tracked across Haskell and Throckmorton counties, producing a short lived tornado and several reports of up to baseball size hail. The drive-in theatre destroyed in Rule was believed to be the oldest working drive-in in Texas. Other severe storms moved across the Concho Valley and Heartland later in the evening.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
11 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Sagerton
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.080, -99.970
Thunderstorm Wind, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Rule
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Coordinates
- 33.180, -99.900
Drive-in theater destroyed
Tornado, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 4:51 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, 3 mi NE of Sagerton
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 33.120, -99.930
Brief tornado touchdown
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, 5 mi SE of Rule
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.130, -99.830
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 5:04 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Haskell
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.750
Thunderstorm Wind, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 5:04 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Haskell
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.750
Wind gust to 80 mph
Hail, Throckmorton
- When
- May 8, 5:40 PM CST
- Where
- Throckmorton County, Throckmorton
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.180, -99.180
Hail, Throckmorton
- When
- May 8, 5:45 PM CST
- Where
- Throckmorton County, 1 mi S of Throckmorton
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.180
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 6:05 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Haskell
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.170, -99.750
Hail, Haskell
- When
- May 8, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Haskell County, Lake Stamford
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.080, -99.620
Hail, Throckmorton
- When
- May 8, 6:58 PM CST
- Where
- Throckmorton County, 1 mi E of Woodson
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 33.020, -99.030
Hail, Tom Green
- When
- May 8, 7:05 PM CST
- Where
- Tom Green County, Wall
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.370, -100.320
Hail, Throckmorton
- When
- May 8, 7:57 PM CST
- Where
- Throckmorton County, 5 mi SE of Woodson
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 32.970, -98.980
Thunderstorm Wind, Concho
- When
- May 8, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Concho County, Millersview
- Property damage
- $500
- Coordinates
- 31.420, -99.770
Large water tank blown across a field
Hail, McCulloch
- When
- May 8, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- McCulloch County, Doole
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 31.400, -99.600
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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 and Flash Flooding in Texas, May 8 to 9, 1998
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 8, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, May 8, 1998
- Strong Wind in Kansas, May 8, 1998
- Heavy Snow and Hail in Utah, May 8, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Texas, May 8, 1998
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in New Jersey, May 8 to 16, 1998
- Tornado in South Carolina, May 8, 1998
- Hail and Lightning Strike in Virginia, May 8, 1998
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 8, 1998
- Hail in North Carolina, May 8, 1998
More
Every storm in Texas in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Texas, 1998Warnings in Texas, May 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: 5640822, 5640823, 5640828, 5640834, 5640829, 5640824, 5640830, 5640825, 5640831, 5641120, 5641121, 5640826, 5640827, 5641119, 5640833, 5640832.