Texas, 1999Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 31, 1999
May 31, 1999 · NWS MAF · 2 events in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Tornado, Glasscock
- When
- May 31, 6:06 PM CST to 6:08 PM CST
- Where
- Glasscock County, 5 mi SE of Garden City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 70 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.820, -101.430
An apparent landspout tornado formed briefly in an updraft of the western-most cell of a multicell cluster. The updraft was on the north side of the cell and there was a boundary in close proximity that may have assisted in the formation of the vortex.
Hail, Glasscock
- When
- May 31, 6:15 PM CST
- Where
- Glasscock County, 13 mi ESE of Garden City
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 31.800, -101.300
The cluster that caused the landspout continued to move northeast and dropped this hail on State Highway 158.
- 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.
- 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.
- Tornadoes in Colorado, May 31, 1999$4.0 million · F3 · 2 events
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Oklahoma, May 31, 19993 injured · $6.8 million · F1 · 85 events
- Rip Current in Florida, May 31, 19991 death · 1 event
- Rip Current in Florida, May 31, 19991 death · 1 event
- Tornado in Michigan, May 31, 1999$150,000 · F2 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 31, 1999$570,000 · 2 in hail · 15 events
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, May 31, 1999$43,000 · F1 · 32 events
- Hail in Kansas, May 31, 1999$105,000 · 1 in hail · 3 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, May 31, 1999$25,000 · 61 kt wind · 20 events
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, May 31, 1999$50,000 · 1 event
- Tornado and Hail in Colorado, May 31, 1999F1 · 8 events
- Tornado and Hail in Texas, May 31, 1999$14,000 · F0 · 21 events
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: 5697257, 5697258.