Tornadoes · United States · Texas · 2015

EF2 tornado, Pettibone to North Elm, Texas, May 25, 2015

Name: EF2 tornado, Pettibone to North Elm, Texas, May 25, 2015
Start: 2015-05-25T20:55:00.000Z
End: 2015-05-25T21:05:00.000Z
Location: Pettibone to North Elm, Texas

From Pettibone to North Elm, this EF2 tornado ran 8.9 miles across Milam County on May 25, 2015, touching down at 3:55 PM CDT and reaching 400 yards wide. It killed 1 person and injured 6, and did $700,000 of property damage.

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 mphthis tornado
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: EF2
Date: May 25, 2015
Touchdown: 3:55 PM CDT (20:55 UTC)
Lifted: 4:05 PM CDT (21:05 UTC)
On the ground: 10 minutes
Path length: 8.9 miles (14.3 km)
Path width: 400 yards (366 m)
Deaths: 1
Injuries: 6
Property damage: $700,000
Crop damage: $60,000
County: Milam County
Touchdown point: 30.815, -97.118
Lift-off point: 30.915, -97.023
Record number: 1505251455-02

The damage survey

20 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FWD, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF2. The highest wind the damage implies is 121 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

For several days, a stalled cold front, combined with abundant moisture from the Gulf of Mexico combined to produce widespread rain and thunderstorms in Texas. Several rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms occurred during a four day period, producing flash flooding, and numerous reports of large hail. Tornadoes affected areas in central Texas, from near Lampasas to a deadly tornado in Milam County.

A National Weather Service damage survey team found evidence of a tornado which produced EF-2 damage. The tornado first occurred near the community of Pettibone, and moved northeast across central Milam County. The tornado damaged or destroyed approximately 12 homes, mobile homes, and farm buildings. Several locations suffered tree damage as well. The tornado was strongest as it approached US 190, between Milam County roads 201 and 206. In this area, the tornado was at its widest, and affected the most buildings.

The deaths

1 direct deaths are recorded for this tornado, each with what Storm Data knows of it.

Age	Sex	Where	Kind
59	M	Mobile/Trailer Home	Direct

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

The warnings

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down. One was issued for the county at another hour that day.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 15:55 UTC and running to 23:00 UTC.

Issued (UTC)	Expired	Product	Office
11:21 UTC	15:13 UTC	Flood Warning	FWD
15:55 UTC	23:00 UTC	Tornado Watch	FWD
20:28 UTC	21:30 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
20:59 UTC	21:30 UTC	Tornado Warning	FWD
21:09 UTC	22:15 UTC	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FWD
21:24 UTC	00:30 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	FWD
00:28 UTC	03:30 UTC	Flash Flood Warning	FWD
01:30 UTC	15:49 UTC	Flood Warning	FWD
03:07 UTC	15:49 UTC	Flood Warning	FWD
03:30 UTC	06:30 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 Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 19:32 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 25, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:53 PM CDT, 1 hour 2 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
253 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

.DISCUSSION...

WATER VAPOR AND RADAR MOSAIC LOOPS SHOW A VIGOROUS SHORT WAVE
NEAR CHILDRESS MOVING NORTHEAST WITH A BAND OF INTENSE AND SEVERE
CONVECTION EXTENDING ACROSS OUT WESTERN COUNTIES AND INTO THE
HILL COUNTY. AHEAD OF THIS SYSTEM...THERE WERE SCATTERED CLUSTERS
OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THE LINE WILL CONTINUE MOVING
EAST 30 MPH ACROSS THE REST OF THE CWA THROUGH EARLY EVENING.
SOME OF THE HI-RES MODELS KEEP SOME OF THIS ACTIVITY GOING OVER
THE FAR EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES UNTIL 10 PM.
AFTERWARD...THINK MUCH OF THE CWA WILL BE QUIET BUT HAVE
MAINTAINED 20-30 POPS OVER THE EAST/SOUTHEAST AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WE WILL BE REMOVING COUNTIES FROM THE TORNADO WATCH AS THE LINE
PROGRESSES EAST AND THE THREAT ENDS TO THE WEST.

TUESDAY WILL BE ANOTHER DAY OF CONCERN FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS AS
FORECAST SOUNDINGS REMAIN VERY UNSTABLE AND A DRYLINE WILL
ENCROACH INTO THE FAR WESTERN COUNTIES. WHATEVER GOES UP ALONG THE
DRYLINE WILL HAVE SBCAPE OF 5500 J/KG TO FEED ON...THUS BEING CAPABLE
OF PRODUCING VERY LARGE HAIL. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED STRONG/SEVERE
STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE...ESPECIALLY WHERE ANY SURFACE BOUNDARIES
REMAIN.

OUR ATMOSPHERE WILL REMAIN UNSTABLE GOING THROUGH THE WEEKEND AND
ISOLATED TO SCATTERED STORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE EACH DAY THROUGH
MONDAY. HOWEVER...WEAK RIDGING ALOFT WILL OCCUR TUESDAY NIGHT
THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT WHICH SHOULD PROVIDE FOR LESS STORM
COVERAGE. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT RETURNS THURSDAY WITH SEVERAL
STRONG SHORT WAVES MOVING ACROSS THE REGION...THUS A RETURN TO
HIGHER POPS THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY. OUR UPPER FLOW BECOMES
MORE NORTHWESTERLY SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY. WE WILL HAVE TO WATCH
OUT FOR UPSTREAM NOCTURNAL CONVECTION OVER THE PANHANDLE OR
EASTERN COLORADO THAT COULD AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS THE FIRST
HALF OF NEXT WEEK.

DO NOT SEE ANY NEED TO CHANGE OUR TEMPERATURE FORECAST AS LOWS
WILL BE A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL WHILE HIGHS AVERAGE NEAR
NORMAL. AS CONVECTION ENDS TONIGHT...CLOUDS WILL DECREASE AND WE
WILL SEE THE SUN RETURN FOR TOMORROW. HOWEVER...A RETURN OF MOIST
LOW LEVEL FLOW WILL BRING MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES BACK TO THE CWA ON
WEDNESDAY...AND THIS PROCESS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND.
75

&&

.AVIATION...
/ISSUED 1236 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015/
LINE OF STORMS IS MOVING EASTWARD AND SHOULD ARRIVE IN METROPLEX
FROM WEST TO EAST AND AFFECT TAFS SITES BETWEEN 19Z-22Z. STRONG TO
SEVERE WESTERLY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH TEMPORARY IFR/LIFR VSBY IN
HEAVY RAINS. ACTIVITY SHOULD MOVE RATHER QUICKLY TO THE EAST AND
EXPECT BY 6PM LOCAL AND 23Z TO SEE STORMS EAST OF TAF SITES. WILL
WATCH FOR POSSIBLE REDEVELOPMENT BEHIND SQUALL LINE...BUT BELIEVE
AIRMASS WILL BE TOO WORKED OVER FOR AN ADDITIONAL ROUND.

FOR WACO MORE CELLULAR ACTIVITY IS POSSIBLE AHEAD OF LINE AND
WILL SHOW A TEMPO FROM 18Z TO 22Z.

OTHERWISE VFR WILL PREVAIL THIS EVENING AND THROUGH THE OVERNIGHT.
MVFR STRATUS SHOULD ARRIVE BY EARLY MORNING. OUTSIDE OF STORM
INFLUENCES...SOUTH WINDS WILL PREVAIL AT 10-15KT.

ADDITIONAL STORMS POSSIBLE IN TUESDAY AFTERNOON BUT ACTIVITY WILL
BE MORE LIMITED IN COVERAGE. MAY NEED VCTS IN LATER TAF ISSUANCES.

TR.92

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
DALLAS-FT. WORTH, TX  66  87  70  86  71 /  20  20  30  20  20
WACO, TX              67  86  71  86  71 /  20  20  20  20  20
PARIS, TX             65  82  68  85  69 /  70  20  30  30  20
DENTON, TX            64  86  69  86  70 /  20  20  30  20  20
MCKINNEY, TX          65  84  69  86  70 /  20  20  30  30  20
DALLAS, TX            66  86  71  87  71 /  20  20  30  20  20
TERRELL, TX           66  85  71  88  70 /  50  20  30  20  20
CORSICANA, TX         67  85  72  86  71 /  40  20  20  20  20
TEMPLE, TX            68  87  70  88  71 /  20  20  20  20  20
MINERAL WELLS, TX     64  88  69  86  69 /  20  20  20  20  20

&&

.FWD WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FLASH FLOOD WATCH UNTIL 9 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR TXZ091>095-
100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175.

&&

/75

Hazardous weather outlook, May 25, 3:24 AM CDT, 12 hours 31 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
324 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

TXZ091>095-100>107-115>123-129>135-141>148-156>162-174-175-261200-
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-
324 AM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

.DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.

SCATTERED TO NUMEROUS STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON...THEN CONTINUE EAST OF INTERSTATE
35 EARLY THIS EVENING. LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING DOWNBURST WINDS...AND
HEAVY RAINFALL ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE MAIN THREATS. ANY ADDITIONAL
HEAVY RAIN WILL RAPIDLY RUN OFF AND ONLY AGGRAVATE ONGOING RIVER
FLOODING ACROSS THE AREA. A FEW TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE AS WELL.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY.

ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE AGAIN
ON TUESDAY. BEST CHANCES WILL OCCUR NORTHWEST OF A LAMPASAS...TO
HILLSBORO...TO TERRELL...TO PARIS LINE DURING PRIMARILY THE
AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS.

A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS AND SOME SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL
CONTINUE ACROSS ALL OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS WEDNESDAY THROUGH
SUNDAY. HIGHEST RAIN CHANCES WILL OCCUR LATE THURSDAY INTO
SATURDAY WITH LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL EXPECTED ONCE AGAIN.

ANY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL THIS WEEK INTO NEXT WEEKEND WILL
LIKELY RESULT IN ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING AND ACT TO ENHANCE
ONGOING RIVER FLOODING.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY DURING THE LATE MORNING
INTO THIS AFTERNOON.

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 25, 3:06 PM CDT, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
306 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

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

0304 PM     HAIL             1 NW MOSHEIM            31.63N  97.61W
05/25/2015  E0.88 INCH       BOSQUE             TX   FIRE DEPT/RESCUE

            NICKEL HAIL ON FM 217 NW OF MOSHIEM

Local storm report, May 25, 3:22 PM CDT, 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
322 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

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

0320 PM     HAIL             VAN ALSTYNE             33.42N  96.58W
05/25/2015  E0.88 INCH       GRAYSON            TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

Local storm report, May 25, 3:23 PM CDT, 32 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
323 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

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

0321 PM     TSTM WND GST     3 W DUNCANVILLE         32.65N  96.95W
05/25/2015  E60 MPH          DALLAS             TX   TRAINED SPOTTER

            GUST TO 60MPH 3W OF DUNCANVILLE

Local storm report, May 25, 3:28 PM CDT, 27 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
328 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

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

0324 PM     HAIL             HEWITT                  31.47N  97.20W
05/25/2015  E1.00 INCH       MCLENNAN           TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

            SPRING VALLEY ROAD AND BAGBY

Special weather statement, May 25, 3:35 PM CDT, 20 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
335 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

TXZ094-105-252115-
HUNT TX-FANNIN TX-
335 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR HUNT AND FANNIN COUNTIES UNTIL
415 PM CDT...

AT 334 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM NEAR
LEONARD...OR 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BONHAM...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

DIME SIZE HAIL AND WIND GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
GREENVILLE...BONHAM...COMMERCE...LEONARD...HONEY GROVE...WOLFE
CITY...CADDO MILLS...SAVOY...CELESTE...ECTOR...CAMPBELL...DODD
CITY...BAILEY...RAVENNA...BONHAM STATE PARK...JOSEPHINE...TRENTON...
LADONIA...LONE OAK AND PECAN GAP.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 30 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 82 AND 109.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY LEAD
TO FLASH FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

&&

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM CDT FOR NORTH CENTRAL
TEXAS. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM CDT FOR
NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS.

LAT...LON 3385 9586 3298 9586 3299 9630 3334 9629
      3334 9638 3370 9638 3369 9632 3377 9628
      3376 9619 3381 9616 3381 9618 3384 9615
      3384 9605 3386 9603 3384 9602 3387 9600
      3385 9598 3386 9594 3389 9593
TIME...MOT...LOC 2034Z 274DEG 40KT 3339 9631

CAVANAUGH

Local storm report, May 25, 3:52 PM CDT, 3 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
352 PM CDT MON MAY 25 2015

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

0347 PM     LIGHTNING        3 W HILLSBORO           32.00N  97.18W
05/25/2015                   HILL               TX   EMERGENCY MNGR

            ON HWY 22 LIGHTNING STRUCK TWO CARS ON I-35 CAUSING
            AIRBAGS TO DEPLOY

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), 12:00Z

8.9 hours before the tornado, 220 km from the path. May 25, 2015.

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: 1630 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 3058 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 164 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 7.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 5.6 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

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

3.1 hours after it, 220 km from the path. May 26, 2015.

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: 21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -573 J/kg
Surface CAPE: 57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1078 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 75 kt
0-1 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 178 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0
0-3 km lapse rate: 4.0 K/km

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The surface observations

Cameron (T35), 10 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

Time (UTC)	Temp (°F)	Dew point (°F)	Wind	Gust (kt)	Pressure (mb)	Weather
18:55 UTC	73.22	71	150° 9 kt	25	1011.2	+TSRA
19:15 UTC	72.86	70.7	140° 6 kt		1009.8	TS
19:35 UTC	74.12	72	160° 8 kt		1009.5
19:55 UTC	75.2	72.5	0° 0 kt		1009.5	VCTS
20:15 UTC	75.38	72.5	110° 5 kt		1008.5	VCTS
20:35 UTC	75.2	72.5	130° 5 kt		1008.5	-TSRA
20:55 UTC	74.84	72.68	80° 4 kt		1008.1	TSRA
21:15 UTC	64.58	62.78	240° 16 kt	29	1009.8	+TSRA
21:35 UTC	66.38	65.48	210° 11 kt	20	1009.1	+TSRA
21:55 UTC	67	66.2	230° 11 kt	19	1012.2	+TSRA
22:15 UTC	68	67	330° 5 kt		1010.5	+TSRA
22:35 UTC	68	67.28	170° 8 kt		1008.5	-TSRA

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

The radar

The Ft Hood radar (KGRK), 34 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:57 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
19:52 UTC	FUNNEL CLOUD	3 N Georgetown	Williamson, TX	AT GEORGETOWN AIRPORT
20:25 UTC	TSTM WND GST 60	4 Ne Pflugerville	Travis, TX	SIGNS BLOWN DOWN AND SIDING BLOWN OFF BUILDINGS...WIND GUST ESTIMATED TO 60 MPH
20:50 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	1 W Hutto	Williamson, TX	WATER OVER THE ROAD
20:51 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	5 Ene Pflugerville	Travis, TX	WATER OVER THE ROAD
20:52 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 4.3	2 N Hutto	Williamson, TX	RAIN GAUGE SHOWS 4.3 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR
21:04 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Pettibone	Milam, TX	* 1 FATAL, 4 INJ * 4 HOMES TOTALLY DESTROYED.
21:16 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	4 Ene Hutto	Williamson, TX	HWY 79 IMPASSABLE DUE TO FLASH FLOODING
21:30 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	1 Nw Taylor	Williamson, TX	BULL RUN CREEK HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL FLOODED. OVER 4.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN
21:44 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	Hutto	Williamson, TX	WATER OVER THE ROADS AND RAIN RATES OF 4 INCHES PER HOUR
22:00 UTC	HEAVY RAIN 1.88	Georgetown	Williamson, TX	LOW WATER CROSSINGS FLOODED...1.88 INCHES OF RAIN BETWEEN 2PM AND 5PM
22:04 UTC	TSTM WND DMG	Kosse	Limestone, TX	LARGE TREES DOWN ACROSS 339 AND WATER OVER ROADWAY
23:00 UTC	FLASH FLOOD	5 E Round Rock	Williamson, TX	FOREST CREEK GOLF CLUB FLOODED. FOREST CREEK DRIVE CLOSED AT THE CLUB HOUSE. NUMBER 9 FAIRWAY UNDER WATER. 6.67 INCHES OF RAIN FELL IN THE PAST 3.5 HOURS

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

This ground now

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The other tornadoes of May 25, 2015

32 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 25	8:41 AM CDT	EF0	Monroe, MS	4.1	70			$50,000
May 25	8:51 AM CDT	EF1	Monroe, MS	2.5	150			$150,000
May 25	9:00 AM CDT	EF1	Mitchell, TX	0.2	50			$40,000
May 25	9:45 AM CDT	EF0	Fisher, TX	1.1	40
May 25	10:19 AM CDT	EF0	Winston, MS	0.9	25			$20,000
May 25	12:00 PM EDT	EF0	Broward, FL	0.1	10		4
May 25	11:46 AM CDT	EF1	Harrison, TX	9.5	201			$300,000
May 25	12:33 PM CDT	EF1	Gillespie, TX	2.4	100
May 25	1:04 PM CDT	EF0	Blanco, TX	4.8	200
May 25	1:41 PM CDT	EF1	Lampasas, TX	0.4	90			$35,000
May 25	1:42 PM CDT	EF1	Lampasas, TX	1.5	180			$85,000
May 25	2:06 PM CDT	EF1	Coryell, TX	5.7	600			$90,000
May 25	2:25 PM CDT	EF0	Grayson, TX	1.7	30			$20,000
May 25	2:42 PM CDT	EF3	Bryan, OK	18.8	700	1	1
May 25	2:45 PM CDT	EF1	Williamson, TX	0.3	100			$50,000
May 25	3:29 PM CDT	EF2	Atoka, OK	8.0	1,000
May 25	3:41 PM CDT	EF0	Fannin, TX	2.4	100			$65,000
May 25	3:55 PM CDT	EF0	Freestone, TX	0.3	25
May 25	4:06 PM CDT	EF1	Atoka, OK	1.0	400
May 25	4:24 PM CDT	EF1	Bastrop, TX	3.0	440		1
May 25	4:52 PM CDT	EF2	Pushmataha, OK	13.3	1,000			$45,000
May 25	5:17 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore, OK	6.4	600			$10,000
May 25	5:34 PM CDT	EF1	LeFlore, OK	7.5	250
May 25	5:48 PM CDT	EF2	LeFlore, OK	15.5	1,700			$500,000
May 25	6:10 PM CDT	EF0	Wilson, TX	1.7	50
May 25	6:16 PM CDT	EF1	Fayette, TX	4.1	100
May 25	6:35 PM CDT	EF1	Yell, AR	0.4	100			$5,000
May 25	6:40 PM CDT	EF1	Yell, AR	1.9	250			$300,000
May 25	6:47 PM CDT	EF2	Rusk, TX	19.4	600			$250,000
May 25	6:57 PM CDT	EF0	Wilson, TX	1.8	150
May 25	7:18 PM CDT	EF1	Panola, TX	21.6	1,251			$600,000
May 25	8:12 PM CDT	EF1	Caddo Parish, LA	0.4	91			$500,000

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.