Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 2011

EF0 tornado, Elam, Texas, May 24, 2011

Name: EF0 tornado, Elam, Texas, May 24, 2011
Start: 2011-05-25T02:48:00.000Z
Location: Elam, Texas

This EF0 tornado ran 0.0 miles across Dallas County on May 24, 2011, touching down at 9:48 PM CDT and reaching 30 yards wide. It killed nobody.

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 mphthis tornado
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.

The record

Rating: EF0
Date: May 24, 2011
Touchdown: 9:48 PM CDT (02:48 UTC)
Path length: 0.0 miles (0.0 km)
Path width: 30 yards (27 m)
Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
County: Dallas County
Touchdown point: 32.671, -96.684
Lift-off point: 32.671, -96.684
Record number: 1105242048-02

The damage survey

1 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FWD, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF0. The highest wind the damage implies is 75 mph.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

What the Weather Service recorded

Three rounds of thunderstorms affected north Texas with 10 tornadoes confirmed. The atmosphere was highly unstable on this day and a High Risk was issued by the Storm Prediction Center for the northwestern counties of north Texas while a Moderate Risk covered much of the rest of north Texas. A strong upper level disturbance approaching from the west interacted with a dryline across the western portions of north Texas, and the first round of storms began to develop around 330 pm in the western counties. The first two rounds of storms remained along and north of Interstate 20 but the third round of storms later that night moved through most of the region as a line of storms. The most significant tornado occurred in the western limits of the city of Denton where EF-2 damage occurred. An EF-1 tornado also occurred in the city of Irving in Dallas County, and softball sized hail fell in the northern portions of the Metroplex. In the city of Dallas, one person died from electrocution after going outside around live, downed wires after a storm had passed.

A very brief tornado occurred along the Trinity River bottom south of Interstate 20 in southeast Dallas County. Some minor tree damage occurred, and this tornado was rated an EF-0.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

The warnings

8 minutes of warning. NWS FWD issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:40 UTC, 8 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:13 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 17:48 UTC and running to 05:00 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
17:48 UTC	05:00 UTC	Tornado Watch	FWD
00:56 UTC	01:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	FWD
01:41 UTC	02:45 UTC	Tornado Warning	FWD
01:48 UTC	04:45 UTC	Flood Advisory	FWD
02:40 UTC	03:13 UTC	Tornado Warning	FWD
02:45 UTC	05:45 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	FWD
03:14 UTC	04:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
04:01 UTC	09:47 UTC	Flood Warning	FWD

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The forecast that day

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.10 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 01:05 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the tornado touched down, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fort Worth, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before the tornado touched down at May 24, 7:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 24, 7:09 PM CDT, 2 hours 39 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
709 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

.AVIATION...
THE MAIN AVIATION WEATHER CONCERN TONIGHT WILL BE THE TIMING OF
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE METROPLEX TAF SITES. EXPECT A LINE OF
STORMS WEST OF THE METROPLEX TAF SITES TO MOVE EAST/NORTHEAST AND
TEMPORARILY AFFECT ALL SITES BETWEEN ABOUT 00Z AND 04Z. IT APPEARS
THAT GKY AND DAL MAY NOT BE AFFECTED UNTIL ABOUT 02Z WHILE
FTW...AFW AND DFW MAY SEE A BETTER CHANCE OF STORMS BETWEEN 00Z
AND 02Z. STORM CHANCES SHOULD DECREASE AFTER 04Z AS THE MAIN UPPER
LEVEL TROUGH AXIS MOVES EAST OF THE REGION. LARGE HAIL AND STRONG
WINDS ARE VERY POSSIBLE WITH ANY OF THE THUNDERSTORMS.

OTHERWISE EXPECT VFR CONDITIONS THROUGH WEDNESDAY WITH ONLY SOME
BRIEF MVFR VISIBILITIES OVERNIGHT AS WIND SPEEDS DECREASE A BIT.

A SOUTH WIND BETWEEN 13 AND 18 KNOTS TONIGHT WILL TURN TO THE
SOUTHWEST AFTER SUNRISE WEDNESDAY AND WEST/NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON WITH THE PASSAGE OF THE DRY LINE AND COLD FRONT.

79

&&

.PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 323 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011/
THUNDERSTORM INITIATION HAS BEGUN ON THE DRYLINE. AT 3 PM...THE
DRYLINE WAS LOCATED NEAR A LINE FROM FREDERICK OK TO EAST OF
ABILENE TO SONORA. THE OVERALL THINKING REGARDING THE SEVERE
WEATHER EPISODE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT HAS NOT CHANGED AND
WILL NOT DISCUSS MUCH ABOUT IT IN THIS UPDATE. A SIGNIFICANT EVENT
WILL UNFOLD WITH LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...TORNADOES...AND
LOCALIZED FLASH FLOODING REMAINING THE HAZARDS. ISOLATED TO SCATTERED
STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ALONG AND NEAR THE DRYLINE BUT MAY
MERGE INTO A SQUALL LINE/MCS LATER TONIGHT. PLEASE REFER TO THE
LATEST AREA WEATHER UPDATE /AWUFWD/...WATCHES...AND SPC PRODUCTS
FOR THE UPDATED TRENDS AND MESOANALYSIS.

THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH THAT IS CURRENTLY OVER THE ROCKIES IS
EXPECTED TO CLOSE OFF INTO A LOW TONIGHT AS IT MOVES INTO THE
SOUTHERN PLAINS. THIS UPPER LOW WILL CONTINUE TO SPIN IN THE
PLAINS TOMORROW BEFORE EJECTING EAST LATE TOMORROW. BECAUSE OF
THIS...THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW THAT IS CURRENTLY OVER THE
NORTHERN TEXAS PANHANDLE WILL ALSO SLOWLY ADVANCE THROUGH THE
PLAINS TONIGHT AND TOMORROW. THE DRYLINE WILL PUSH INTO NORTH
TEXAS TONIGHT BUT WILL STALL IN RESPONSE TO THE SLOW MOVING STORM
SYSTEM. A COLD FRONT IS EXPECTED TO OVERTAKE THE DRYLINE TOMORROW
AND BOTH WILL ADVANCE INTO SOUTHEAST TEXAS BY TOMORROW EVENING.
THERE IS A CHANCE THAT STORMS WILL DEVELOP ALONG THE DRYLINE/FRONT
OVER THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES TOMORROW AFTERNOON. A FEW SEVERE
STORMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT.

SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE WILL MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS WEDNESDAY NIGHT
AND UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL BEGIN TO BUILD IN FROM THE WEST. THIS
WILL ESSENTIALLY CUT OFF PRECIPITATION CHANCES FOR THE REMAINDER
OF THE WEEK. SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL RETURN ON FRIDAY AND DEWPOINTS
IN THE 60S AND 70S WILL RETURN OVER THE WEEKEND. WITH THE UPPER
LEVEL RIDGE STILL INFLUENCING NORTH TEXAS WEATHER AND LACK OF ANY
OTHER FORCING...WILL MAINTAIN LESS THAN 20 POPS THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

BY THE END OF THE WEEKEND...THE UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL SHIFT EAST
AS ANOTHER UPPER LEVEL TROUGH DIGS ACROSS THE ROCKIES.
HOWEVER...IT LOOKS LIKE THIS TROUGH WILL LIFT NORTH AND THE UPPER
RIDGE WILL MAINTAIN ITS INFLUENCE OVER THE REGION.

AFTER A BRIEF COOL DOWN ON THURSDAY BEHIND THE COLD FRONT...
TEMPERATURES OVER THE WEEKEND WILL QUICKLY REBOUND AND WARM INTO
THE MID AND UPPER 90S ACROSS THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN COUNTIES OF
THE CWA.

82/JLD

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  64  93  62  83  67 /  60  10   5   0   5
WACO, TX              74  95  62  87  67 /  30  20  20   0   5
PARIS, TX             70  88  58  77  61 /  50  10  10   0   5
DENTON, TX            63  88  60  82  62 /  60  10   5   0   5
MCKINNEY, TX          64  88  59  81  62 /  60  10   5   0   5
DALLAS, TX            66  91  62  83  68 /  60  10  10   0   5
TERRELL, TX           68  92  59  82  64 /  50  10  10   0   5
CORSICANA, TX         72  92  61  84  66 /  30  20  20   0   5
TEMPLE, TX            75  95  61  87  66 /  20  20  20   0   5
MINERAL WELLS, TX     60  92  59  85  65 /  50  10   5   0   5

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

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Hazardous weather outlook, May 24, 3:10 PM CDT, 6 hours 38 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
310 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-251200-
MONTAGUE-COOKE-GRAYSON-FANNIN-LAMAR-YOUNG-JACK-WISE-DENTON-COLLIN-
HUNT-DELTA-HOPKINS-STEPHENS-PALO PINTO-PARKER-TARRANT-DALLAS-
ROCKWALL-KAUFMAN-VAN ZANDT-RAINS-EASTLAND-ERATH-HOOD-SOMERVELL-
JOHNSON-ELLIS-HENDERSON-COMANCHE-MILLS-HAMILTON-BOSQUE-HILL-NAVARRO-
FREESTONE-ANDERSON-LAMPASAS-CORYELL-BELL-MCLENNAN-FALLS-LIMESTONE-
LEON-MILAM-ROBERTSON-
310 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT.

A SIGNIFICANT SEVERE WEATHER EPISODE IS EXPECTED THROUGH TONIGHT
ACROSS NORTH TEXAS...ESPECIALLY THOSE AREAS NORTH OF A HAMILTON...
HILLSBORO...CANTON LINE.

SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE DEVELOPING ALONG THE
DRYLINE WEST OF INTERSTATE 35 LATE TODAY...THEN SPREAD EAST DURING
THE EVENING HOURS AND BE MOST NUMEROUS ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF
OF THE AREA. THREATS INCLUDE VERY LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS TO
70 MPH AND TORNADOES. BRIEF HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO CAUSE LOCALIZED
FLOODING.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY.

A SLIGHT CHANCE FOR THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE WEDNESDAY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING SOUTHEAST OF A LAMPASAS...TO WACO...TO
CANTON LINE. A FEW STORMS MAY REACH STRONG TO SEVERE LIMITS.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY ACROSS A GOOD PART OF NORTH TEXAS
THROUGH TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY THE NORTHWEST HALF.

05/

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 24, 9:28 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
928 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0927 PM     HAIL             2 S SADLER              33.65N  96.85W
05/24/2011  E1.00 INCH       GRAYSON            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

Local storm report, May 24, 9:31 PM CDT, 17 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
931 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0929 PM     HAIL             4 NW PILOT POINT        33.44N  97.02W
05/24/2011  E1.00 INCH       COOKE              TX   AMATEUR RADIO

Local storm report, May 24, 9:38 PM CDT, 10 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
938 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0937 PM     HAIL             1 S SHERMAN             33.62N  96.57W
05/24/2011  E1.00 INCH       GRAYSON            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

Local storm report, May 24, 9:40 PM CDT, 8 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
940 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0940 PM     HAIL             1 E SHERMAN             33.63N  96.55W
05/24/2011  E1.75 INCH       GRAYSON            TX   AMATEUR RADIO

Local storm report, May 24, 9:42 PM CDT, 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
942 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0942 PM     HAIL             7 S RHOME               32.95N  97.48W
05/24/2011  E1.00 INCH       TARRANT            TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

Local storm report, May 24, 9:43 PM CDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
943 PM CDT TUE MAY 24 2011

..TIME..    ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE..    ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0934 PM     TSTM WND GST     ARLINGTON               32.73N  97.12W
05/24/2011  E70 MPH          TARRANT            TX   ASOS

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.

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), 00:00Z

2.8 hours before the tornado, 59 km from the path. May 25, 2011.

Skew-T log-p

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.

Hodograph

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: 2867 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -16 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 3682 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1457 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 357 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 602 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 6.2
Supercell composite: 44.3
0-3 km lapse rate: 6.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

Fort Worth, TX (KFWD), 12:00Z

9.2 hours after it, 59 km from the path. May 25, 2011.

Skew-T log-p

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.

Hodograph

Mixed-layer CAPE: 310 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -362 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 2770 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2205 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 61 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 151 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.2
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.5 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Lancaster (LNC), 11 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
00:55 UTC	86	64.4	170° 18 kt	28	1000	VCTS
01:15 UTC	86	64.4	170° 17 kt	26	1000
01:35 UTC	86	64.4	160° 17 kt	24	999.7	TS
01:55 UTC	84.2	64.4	180° 17 kt	29	1000.7	-TSRA
02:15 UTC	84.2	64.4	160° 17 kt	25	1000.3	-TSRA
02:35 UTC	82.4	64.4	280° 17 kt	24	1002.7	-TSRA
02:55 UTC	80.6	68	270° 16 kt	31	1002.7	VCTS
03:15 UTC	80.6	66.2	170° 16 kt	25	1000.7	TS
03:35 UTC	82.4	64.4	170° 13 kt	29	1002	TS
03:55 UTC	80.6	66.2	210° 13 kt	28	1003.4	-TSRA
04:15 UTC	73.4	69.8	270° 9 kt	16	1006.8	+TSRA
04:35 UTC	73.4	71.6	180° 9 kt	14	1005.4	VCTS

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

The radar

The Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:47 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

What was reported nearby

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Report	Where	County	Remark
00:20 UTC	HAIL 1.5	2 S Euless	Tarrant, TX
01:00 UTC	TSTM WND GST 75	Richland Hills	Tarrant, TX	SEVERAL LARGE TREES EITHER DOWNED, ONE ON A HOME. DAMAGE TO SIGNS, AWNINGS, AND POWER POLES ON RUFE SNOW DR.
01:00 UTC	HAIL 1.75	1 N Irving	Dallas, TX	GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL AT INTERSECTION OF HWY 114 AND MACARTHUR BLVD.
01:02 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Grapevine	Tarrant, TX	GOLFBALL SIZE HAIL REPORTED IN GRAPEVINE
01:10 UTC	HAIL 1.75	5 E Southlake	Tarrant, TX	GOLFBALL HAIL IN GRAPEVINE, TX.
01:14 UTC	HAIL 1	Coppell	Dallas, TX
01:19 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Bedford	Tarrant, TX
01:20 UTC	HAIL 4.25	Irving	Dallas, TX
01:25 UTC	HAIL 1.5	Irving	Dallas, TX	PING PONG SIZE HAIL IN IRVING.
01:27 UTC	HAIL 2.5	Dallas	Dallas, TX	116 CHESTERFIELD CIRCLE DALLAS
01:28 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Coppell	Dallas, TX
01:30 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	6 E Fort Worth	Tarrant, TX	ESTIMATED 70 MPH WINDS KNOCKED DOWN TWO VERY LARGE TREES JUST SE OF E LOOP 820 AND I-30 INTERSECTION.
01:33 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Cedar Hill	Dallas, TX	AT 183 AND MOCKINGBIRD
01:35 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Farmers Branch	Dallas, TX
01:39 UTC	HAIL 0.88	Highland Park	Dallas, TX	28TH &AMP; FOREST AVE HIGHLAND PARK
01:49 UTC	HAIL 2.75	Dallas	Dallas, TX	SKILLMAN &AMP; SOUTHWESTERN
02:02 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Arlington	Tarrant, TX	I-20 AND BOWEN
02:05 UTC	HAIL 2.75	Arlington	Tarrant, TX	I-20 AND BOWEN
02:19 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Arlington	Tarrant, TX
02:20 UTC	HAIL 1	2 S Euless	Tarrant, TX	2 S EULESS PENNY TO QUARTER SIZE HAIL
02:20 UTC	HAIL 1.75	1 S Euless	Tarrant, TX
02:20 UTC	HAIL 1.75	Arlington	Tarrant, TX
02:30 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	1 E Dallas	Dallas, TX	VERY LARGE TREE BRANCHES BROKEN AND WOOD FENCE BLOWN DOWN. ONE INCH HAIL OCCURRED AS WELL.
02:30 UTC	HAIL 1.5	Dallas	Dallas, TX	NEAR DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
02:34 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	Arlington	Tarrant, TX
02:48 UTC	TORNADO	6 Sw Balch Springs	Dallas, TX	I-20 AND TRINITY RIVER
02:50 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	Arlington	Tarrant, TX
03:11 UTC	HAIL 2.75	1 S Crandall	Kaufman, TX	JUST S OF CRANDALL BASEBALL HAIL
03:13 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ne Wilmer	Dallas, TX	LARGE TREE APPROX 2-4 FT WIDE LYING IN ROAD AT BELTLINE
03:20 UTC	HAIL 0.88	Euless	Tarrant, TX
03:23 UTC	HAIL 1	Euless	Tarrant, TX
03:23 UTC	HAIL 1.75	5 W Kaufman	Kaufman, TX
03:24 UTC	HAIL 2.75	1 N Kaufman	Kaufman, TX
03:25 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	Plano	Collin, TX
03:33 UTC	TSTM WND GST 65	Richardson	Dallas, TX	ESTIMATED WIND GUST 65 MPH WITH SHEETS OF RAIN
03:37 UTC	TSTM WND GST 62	5 Ne Wylie	Collin, TX	62 MPH MEASURED WIND POWER FLASHES AND POWER OUTAGES
03:40 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Highland Park	Dallas, TX	LARGE TREES DOWN IN HIGHLAND PARK.
03:50 UTC	TORNADO	1 W Cedarvale	Kaufman, TX	SPOTTER REPORTS BRIEF TORNADO BETWEEN KUAFMAN AND CEDARVALE
04:17 UTC	TSTM WND GST 70	Kaufman	Kaufman, TX	HWY 243 AND HWY 175

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

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The other tornadoes of May 24, 2011

47 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	2:35 PM CDT	EF0	Haskell, KS	0.5	50
May 24	2:10 PM MDT	EF0	Prowers, CO	0.3	75
May 24	3:20 PM CDT	EF3	Blaine, OK	13.2	880	1	2
May 24	3:31 PM CDT	EF3	Caddo, OK	8.6	800
May 24	3:34 PM CDT	EF0	Gray, KS	0.4	50
May 24	3:45 PM CDT	EF0	Finney, KS	0.3	50
May 24	3:47 PM CDT	EF0	Major, OK	0.7	80
May 24	3:50 PM CDT	EF5	El Reno–Piedmont tornado, OK	63.1	1,760	9	181
May 24	4:55 PM EDT	EF0	Russell, VA	4.2	50			$30,000
May 24	4:37 PM CDT	EF0	Canadian, OK	1.5	50
May 24	4:52 PM CDT	EF2	Stafford, KS	11.8	500	2	1
May 24	5:06 PM CDT	EF4	Chickasha tornado, OK	33.3	880	1	48
May 24	5:09 PM CDT	EF1	Barton, KS	5.1	75		1	$250,000
May 24	5:20 PM CDT	EF0	Rush, KS	0.6	75
May 24	5:26 PM CDT	EF4	Goldsby tornado, OK	23.1	880		61
May 24	5:35 PM CDT	EF0	Rush, KS	6.2	1,200
May 24	5:45 PM CDT	EF0	McClain, OK	0.7	50
May 24	5:46 PM CDT	EF0	Montague, TX	0.0	30
May 24	5:50 PM CDT	EF2	Payne, OK	10.4	880		18
May 24	6:01 PM CDT	EF1	Pawnee, KS	4.7	200			$110,000
May 24	6:02 PM CDT	EF1	McClain, OK	0.5	40
May 24	6:27 PM CDT	EF0	Rush, KS	1.3	150
May 24	6:36 PM CDT	EF2	Pottawatomie, OK	2.0	50		32
May 24	6:40 PM CDT	EF0	Montague, TX	0.0	30
May 24	6:44 PM CDT	EF1	Osage, OK	2.8	440
May 24	6:49 PM CDT	EF2	Osage, OK	17.0	750			$20,000
May 24	7:11 PM CDT	EF0	Barton, KS	0.4	50
May 24	7:22 PM CDT	EF0	Barton, KS	3.4	50
May 24	7:30 PM CDT	EF1	Johnston, OK	5.5	1,200
May 24	7:34 PM CDT	EF0	Cooke, TX	1.6	100
May 24	7:38 PM CDT	EF0	Wise, TX	0.0	30			$2,000
May 24	7:38 PM CDT	EF0	Parker, TX	0.4	40			$10,000
May 24	7:45 PM CDT	EF0	Tarrant, TX	1.7	50			$1,000
May 24	7:50 PM CDT	EF0	Ellsworth, KS	0.5	50
May 24	7:51 PM CDT	EF2	Denton, TX	1.5	220			$750,000
May 24	8:23 PM CDT	EF1	Dallas, TX	1.4	500			$150,000
May 24	8:42 PM CDT	EF2	Wagoner, OK	10.2	400			$110,000
May 24	9:13 PM CDT	EF2	Wagoner, OK	4.4	450			$400,000
May 24	9:48 PM CDT	EF1	Delaware, OK	7.0	150
May 24	9:50 PM CDT	EF1	Latimer, OK	2.5	300
May 24	10:06 PM CDT	EF1	Delaware, OK	6.0	150
May 24	10:14 PM CDT	EF0	LeFlore, OK	1.5	100
May 24	10:43 PM CDT	EF0	Kaufman, TX	0.0	20
May 24	10:44 PM CDT	EF2	LeFlore, OK	12.0	1,760			$100,000
May 24	11:37 PM CDT	EF1	Crawford, OK to AR	5.2	800			$50,000
May 24	11:53 PM CDT	EF4	Etna–Centerpoint tornado, AR	45.7	2,200	4	27	$9.1 million
May 24	12:25 AM CDT	EF3	Johnson, AR	29.0	1,430	1	4	$13 million

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.