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2008 tornadoes in Texas

120 tornadoes touched down in Texas in 2008, about the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2007 2009 The whole country in 2008

The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
EF2111 to 135 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.
EF3136 to 165 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
EF5over 200 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.
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.

Every tornado in Texas in 2008

February 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 5	4:50 PM CST	EF1	Smith	1.0	300			$30,000

February 16 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 16	9:35 PM CST	EF0	Galveston	0.0	15
February 16	9:40 PM CST	EF1	Sabine	0.3	100			$50,000

March 3 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 3	6:36 AM CST	EF1	Van Zandt	1.4	40			$50,000
March 3	8:13 AM CST	EF1	Bowie	5.0	75			$750,000

March 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 6	2:58 PM CST	EF1	Nueces	0.1	70			$20,000

March 10 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 10	1:47 PM CDT	EF0	San Patricio	0.3	100			$10,000
March 10	2:21 PM CDT	EF0	San Patricio	0.3	50

March 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
March 17	2:15 PM CDT	EF0	Nolan	0.1	50
March 17	7:53 PM CDT	EF0	Coleman	0.1	50
March 17	8:29 PM CDT	EF0	Coleman	0.1	50

March 18 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 18	2:40 PM CDT	EF0	Nueces	2.3	100	$50,000
March 18	3:30 PM CDT	EF1	Hopkins	2.7	70	$250,000
March 18	8:36 PM CDT	EF1	Rusk	20.5	300	$3.5 million

March 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 30	3:48 PM CDT	EF0	Sabine	1.6	50			$1,000

March 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 31	3:05 PM CDT	EF0	Johnson	0.8	40			$35,000
March 31	3:10 PM CDT	EF0	Johnson	1.5	40			$75,000

April 7 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 7	4:56 PM CDT	EF0	Wichita	0.1	50
April 7	5:06 PM CDT	EF1	Wichita	2.0	200		1	$35,000

April 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 8	8:18 PM CDT	EF0	Coryell	1.8	50

April 9 14 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 9	3:28 PM CDT	EF0	Taylor	0.1	50
April 9	3:35 PM CDT	EF0	Taylor	0.1	50
April 9	5:12 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	2.3	75		$40,000
April 9	5:21 PM CDT	EF1	Stephens	7.1	400	6	$1.0 million
April 9	5:36 PM CDT	EF0	Stephens	1.5	70
April 9	5:55 PM CDT	EF0	Palo Pinto	1.1	50
April 9	6:50 PM CDT	EF0	Palo Pinto	1.7	100		$150,000
April 9	7:43 PM CDT	EF0	Wise	1.8	60
April 9	9:20 PM CDT	EF0	Grayson	1.3	50
April 9	11:57 PM CDT	EF0	Irion	3.7	300
April 9	12:01 AM CDT	EF1	Tom Green	1.5	75		$150,000
April 9	12:07 AM CDT	EF0	Tom Green	6.7	80		$10,000
April 9	12:14 AM CDT	EF1	Tom Green	4.1	150		$6.0 million
April 9	12:32 AM CDT	EF0	Tom Green	2.0	100		$50,000

April 10 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
April 10	1:35 AM CDT	EF1	Brown	1.5	125		$150,000
April 10	3:03 AM CDT	EF1	Somervell	7.6	75		$200,000
April 10	3:30 AM CDT	EF1	Johnson	2.9	50		$25 million
April 10	4:00 AM CDT	EF1	Dallas	2.0	40		$1.0 million
April 10	4:04 AM CDT	EF1	Collin	7.2	175		$12 million
April 10	4:05 AM CDT	EF0	Bell	6.4	100		$500,000
April 10	8:12 AM CDT	EF2	Bowie	5.5	200	1	$1.0 million

April 17 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 17	7:20 PM CDT	EF0	Parker	0.7	40			$3,000

April 23 18 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 23	2:34 PM CDT	EF0	Scurry	5.1	50	$10,000
April 23	2:50 PM CDT	EF1	Scurry	1.7	100	$20,000
April 23	2:54 PM CDT	EF0	Fisher	0.1	50
April 23	3:40 PM CDT	EF0	Fisher	0.1	50
April 23	3:45 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.4	50
April 23	3:56 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	1.1	150
April 23	3:56 PM CDT	EF0	Gaines	2.6	200
April 23	4:08 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.1	50
April 23	4:17 PM CDT	EF0	Jones	0.1	50
April 23	4:29 PM CDT	EF0	Jones	0.1	50
April 23	4:35 PM CDT	EF0	Jones	6.1	300	$12,000
April 23	5:29 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.4	25
April 23	5:30 PM CDT	EF0	Shackelford	0.1	50
April 23	6:55 PM CDT	EF0	Howard	0.4	25
April 23	6:56 PM CDT	EF0	Erath	2.2	50	$20,000
April 23	6:58 PM CDT	EF0	Erath	7.2	125	$50,000
April 23	7:40 PM CDT	EF0	Hood	1.4	40	$60,000
April 23	9:35 PM CDT	EF2	Tarrant	0.3	100	$1.0 million

April 25 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 25	6:20 PM CDT	EF0	Bell	1.4	50
April 25	6:47 PM CDT	EF0	Bell	0.7	50

April 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 26	2:30 PM CDT	EF0	Ochiltree	0.1	20

May 2 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 2	8:30 AM CDT	EF1	Van Zandt	1.3	75	8	$300,000
May 2	11:21 AM CDT	EF1	Rusk	6.4	100		$50,000
May 2	11:55 AM CDT	EF1	Panola	3.8	200		$400,000

May 5 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	5:25 PM CDT	EF0	Pecos	2.3	50
May 5	5:59 PM CDT	EF0	Crane	2.7	50

May 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 6	6:45 PM CDT	EF0	Terry	1.5	75

May 7 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 7	11:50 AM CDT	EF0	Hockley	1.2	20
May 7	8:10 PM CDT	EF0	Robertson	1.0	50	$10,000
May 7	8:15 PM CDT	EF1	Robertson	2.6	250
May 7	8:39 PM CDT	EF0	Robertson	2.1	50

May 14 12 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 14	5:10 AM CDT	EF0	Burnet	0.3	30	$10,000
May 14	9:30 AM CDT	EF1	Rusk	4.3	300	$200,000
May 14	3:15 PM CDT	EF0	Yoakum	1.9	75
May 14	4:02 PM CDT	EF0	Lubbock	0.2	100	$100,000
May 14	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Mitchell	2.1	50
May 14	5:35 PM CDT	EF0	Nolan	0.1	50
May 14	5:53 PM CDT	EF0	Nolan	0.1	50
May 14	6:07 PM CDT	EF0	McCulloch	0.1	50
May 14	6:16 PM CDT	EF0	McCulloch	1.0	85	$250,000
May 14	8:25 PM CDT	EF0	Burnet	0.1	10
May 14	8:30 PM CDT	EF0	Erath	0.3	30
May 14	12:50 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	3.2	100	$10,000

May 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 15	4:00 AM CDT	EF0	Jasper	0.3	25			$10,000

May 25 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 25	3:29 PM CDT	EF0	Hartley	1.7	50
May 25	3:37 PM CDT	EF0	Hartley	7.7	75
May 25	4:53 PM CDT	EF0	Hutchinson	0.5	50

May 26 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 26	6:07 PM CDT	EF0	Pecos	0.7	50
May 26	6:26 PM CDT	EF0	Collingsworth	0.1	25
May 26	6:43 PM CDT	EF0	Collingsworth	0.0	25

May 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 27	7:02 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.3	50
May 27	7:44 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	1.0	50
May 27	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.3	50

June 8 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 8	9:15 PM CDT	EF0	Briscoe	0.2	50

June 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 14	5:45 PM CDT	EF0	Armstrong	0.2	20			$11,000

June 15 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 15	7:10 PM CDT	EF0	Ochiltree	1.3	50

June 19 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 19	5:28 PM CDT	EF0	Cottle	0.0	50

June 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 20	3:21 PM CDT	EF0	Walker	0.0	20

June 21 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	6:04 PM CDT	EF0	Harris	1.0	50			$110,000
June 21	9:15 PM CDT	EF0	Jackson	0.1	25			$20,000

June 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 28	4:55 PM CDT	EF0	Terry	0.6	50

June 29 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 29	2:00 PM CDT	EF0	Yoakum	0.1	25

July 23 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 23	12:40 PM CDT	EF0	San Patricio	1.6	20	$10,000
July 23	12:55 PM CDT	EF0	San Patricio	0.7	25
July 23	2:59 PM CDT	EF0	Jim Wells	0.4	50
July 23	11:14 PM CDT	EF0	Cameron	0.1	20

July 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 24	8:12 AM CDT	EF0	Wilson	0.0	30			$10,000
July 24	9:20 AM CDT	EF0	Bexar	0.3	30			$800,000

August 26 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 26	4:19 PM CDT	EF0	Willacy	0.1	25			$2,000

September 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 9	6:34 PM CDT	EF0	Llano	0.9	10

September 13 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 13	8:21 AM CDT	EF0	Nacogdoches	0.3	75			$50,000

October 6 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 6	5:05 PM CDT	EF0	Cass	1.5	100	$75,000
October 6	8:29 PM CDT	EF0	Anderson	7.0	50	$55,000
October 6	10:10 PM CDT	EF0	Cherokee	0.5	50

November 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 7	12:10 PM CST	EF0	Cameron	0.2	15			$1,000

December 8 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 8	10:22 PM CST	EF1	Grayson	10.6	200		1	$400,000
December 8	10:43 PM CST	EF2	Grayson	3.6	125		3	$750,000

December 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 27	11:37 AM CST	EF0	Franklin	1.4	50			$15,000

Nearby

Every tornado in Texas since 1950 Warnings in force in Texas The live radar over Texas

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.