Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 1967

F1 tornado, Goliad County, Texas, September 22, 1967

This F1 tornado ran 0.1 miles across Goliad County on September 22, 1967, touching down at 6:00 AM GMT-5 and reaching 10 yards wide. It killed nobody and injured 2, and did $50 to $500 of property damage.

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

  1. F040 to 72 mph

    Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

  2. F173 to 112 mphthis tornado

    Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

  3. F2113 to 157 mph

    Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.

  4. F3158 to 206 mph

    Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

  5. F4207 to 260 mph

    Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

  6. F5261 to 318 mph

    Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.

  7. Unrated

    The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

The record

Rating
F1, estimated from the damage record rather than surveyed
Date
September 22, 1967
Touchdown
6:00 AM GMT-5 (11:00 UTC)
Path length
0.1 miles (0.2 km)
Path width
10 yards (9 m)
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Property damage
$50 to $500
County
Goliad County
Touchdown point
28.570, -97.630
Record number
794

The air that afternoon

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), 00:00Z

11.0 hours before the tornado, 78 km from the path. September 22, 1967.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Victoria Regiona, TX at 00:00Z on 1967-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 1740 joules per kilogram, CIN -3, lifted condensation level 545 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Victoria Regiona, TX at 00:00Z on 1967-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 88 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 20 knots.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1740 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Surface CAPE
2450 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
545 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0
0-3 km lapse rate
6.1 K/km

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Victoria Regiona, TX (KVCT), 12:00Z

1.0 hours after it, 78 km from the path. September 22, 1967.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Victoria Regiona, TX at 12:00Z on 1967-09-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel lifted from the surface. Mixed-layer CAPE 1432 joules per kilogram, CIN -4, lifted condensation level 664 meters above ground. Wind barbs in knots down the right edge.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed. The warm shading is its CAPE, the cool shading the inhibition it has to break through.
HodographHodograph, Victoria Regiona, TX at 12:00Z on 1967-09-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers as a curve, rings every 10 meters per second labeled in knots. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 square meters per square second, 0 to 6 km bulk shear 28 knots.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km. RM and LM are the right and left moving storms Bunkers' method gives; the shaded area is the 0 to 1 km storm-relative helicity.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1432 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Surface CAPE
2466 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
664 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2
0-3 km lapse rate
5.7 K/km

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The surface observations

Victoria Regional (VCT), 76 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)Temp (°F)Dew point (°F)WindGust (kt)Pressure (mb)Weather
09:00 UTC787550° 8 kt1013.5FG
12:00 UTC787560° 10 kt1014.6FG

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

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The other tornadoes of September 22, 1967

20 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

DateTimeRatingWherePath (mi)Width (yd)DeathsInjuriesDamage
September 229:20 AM GMT-5F2Nueces, TX18.2200
September 229:23 AM GMT-5F2Jim Wells, TX2.033
September 229:39 AM GMT-5F0Jim Wells, TX0.127$50 to $500
September 2210:25 AM GMT-5F0Nueces, TX0.133
September 2211:00 AM GMT-5F0Refugio, TX0.110
September 2211:40 AM GMT-5F0Refugio, TX0.110
September 2212:29 PM GMT-5F0Nueces, TX0.117
September 2212:29 PM GMT-5F0Nueces, TX0.133
September 2212:52 PM GMT-5F0Refugio, TX0.110
September 221:00 PM GMT-5F0Kleberg, TX0.133
September 221:08 PM GMT-5F0Jim Wells, TX0.517
September 222:00 PM GMT-5F0Kleberg, TX0.620
September 222:05 PM GMT-5F0San Patricio, TX0.133
September 222:30 PM GMT-5F1Bee, TX0.110$50 to $500
September 222:30 PM GMT-5F0Duval, TX0.233
September 222:30 PM GMT-5F0Jim Wells, TX0.110
September 223:44 PM GMT-5F0Nueces, TX0.110
September 223:45 PM GMT-5F0Nueces, TX0.533
September 225:45 PM GMT-5F0Bell, TX0.110
September 228:05 PM GMT-5F0Fayette, TX0.110

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.