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2018 tornadoes in Texas

53 tornadoes touched down in Texas in 2018, 58 percent below the average of the record for the state. None of them killed anybody.

2017 2019 The whole country in 2018

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 2018

January 21 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
January 21	6:29 PM CST	EF0	Navarro	1.1	60	$90,000
January 21	8:19 PM CST	EF0	Hopkins	0.3	50	$5,000
January 21	9:26 PM CST	EF2	Bowie	7.1	560	$2.5 million
January 21	9:43 PM CST	EF0	Bowie	0.5	50	$50,000

January 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 22	2:10 AM CST	EF0	Jasper	0.5	10			$20,000

March 18 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 18	7:29 PM CDT	EF0	Hansford	0.1	25
March 18	9:14 PM CDT	EF1	Hemphill	6.0	70

March 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 27	4:49 PM CDT	EF0	Terry	0.1	20

March 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 28	4:57 AM CDT	EF0	Caldwell	1.2	50			$10,000
March 28	12:56 AM CDT	EF0	Refugio	0.9	75			$100,000

March 29 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 29	1:25 AM CDT	EF0	Aransas	0.1	30	$50,000
March 29	1:39 AM CDT	EF1	Calhoun	0.4	150	$1.0 million
March 29	2:16 AM CDT	EF0	Brazoria	0.0	20	$1,000

April 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	7:51 PM CDT	Unrated	Burnet	0.6	50

April 13 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 13	11:04 PM CDT	EF1	Gregg	4.3	580			$11,000
April 13	11:50 PM CDT	EF0	Caddo Parish to LA	10.5	100			$6,000

May 2 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 2	5:46 PM CDT	Unrated	Wilbarger	0.2	25
May 2	10:39 PM CDT	EF0	Crockett	0.8	50			$50,000

May 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	8:22 AM CDT	EF1	Williamson	5.1	50			$50,000

May 29 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 29	5:36 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	0.1	50
May 29	6:09 PM CDT	EF0	Wheeler	0.1	50

June 1 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 1	8:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Kent	0.0	30

June 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 12	6:46 PM CDT	EF0	Carson	0.1	10

June 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 22	10:21 PM CDT	EF0	Wheeler	0.5	50

July 4 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 4	2:25 PM CDT	EF0	Williamson	0.7	20			$1,000

July 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 9	9:04 AM CDT	EF0	Sabine	0.3	30

July 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 27	4:03 PM CDT	EF0	Willacy	1.9	25

August 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 7	11:30 AM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	0.1	10

August 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 11	7:38 PM CDT	EF0	Howard	0.4	100

September 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 2	4:57 PM CDT	Unrated	Lubbock	0.1	30

October 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 7	2:31 PM CDT	Unrated	Castro	8.7	200

October 8 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 8	5:02 PM CDT	Unrated	Terry	0.5	30
October 8	5:15 PM CDT	EF0	Upton	0.1	50

October 13 10 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 13	6:56 AM CDT	EF2	Tom Green	3.0	644	$200,000
October 13	10:17 AM CDT	EF0	McCulloch	0.5	200	$150,000
October 13	12:47 PM CDT	EF0	Ellis	0.5	60	$25,000
October 13	12:52 PM CDT	EF0	Hill	0.5	50	$15,000
October 13	1:02 PM CDT	EF1	Hill	1.6	100	$50,000
October 13	1:13 PM CDT	EF0	Hill	0.3	50	$5,000
October 13	1:50 PM CDT	EF0	Navarro	0.5	50
October 13	2:13 PM CDT	EF0	Navarro	1.1	150
October 13	4:03 PM CDT	EF0	Freestone	4.1	60
October 13	5:19 PM CDT	EF0	Panola	1.3	40

October 31 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
October 31	2:56 PM CDT	EF0	Colorado	1.4	100
October 31	6:48 PM CDT	EF1	Nacogdoches	1.5	100	$30,000
October 31	7:47 PM CDT	EF1	Hardin	2.1	189	$76,000
October 31	8:01 PM CDT	EF0	Jasper	0.7	150	$2,000
October 31	8:10 PM CDT	EF1	Jasper	8.5	260	$30,000
October 31	9:54 PM CDT	EF0	Brazoria	0.1	30	$30,000
October 31	9:57 PM CDT	EF1	Chambers	0.4	100	$50,000

November 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 7	2:00 PM CST	EF0	Jefferson	0.2	50

December 26 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 26	3:40 PM CST	EF0	Dickens	0.3	30			$30,000
December 26	4:23 PM CST	EF0	Donley	0.6	100

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.