Tornadoes · United States · Texas

2021 tornadoes in Texas

94 tornadoes touched down in Texas in 2021, 26 percent below the average of the record for the state. They killed 1 people and injured 13.

2020 2022 The whole country in 2021

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 2021

January 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 6	6:14 PM CST	EF1	Galveston	2.0	50			$500,000

March 12 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 12	5:05 PM CST	Unrated	Lubbock	1.3	100
March 12	8:16 PM CST	Unrated	Cottle	0.2	50

March 13 17 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 13	2:55 PM CST	Unrated	Castro	0.9	20
March 13	3:15 PM CST	EF2	Swisher	21.3	1,000	$600,000
March 13	3:31 PM CST	EF1	Randall	2.5	500
March 13	3:37 PM CST	EF1	Randall	3.5	100	$30,000
March 13	3:48 PM CST	EF1	Randall	8.2	800	$320,000
March 13	3:54 PM CST	EF0	Castro	1.4	30
March 13	3:55 PM CST	Unrated	Castro	0.3	30
March 13	4:05 PM CST	EF0	Swisher	3.2	50
March 13	4:06 PM CST	EF0	Randall	13.0	1,000	$30,000
March 13	4:21 PM CST	Unrated	Hale	0.0	20
March 13	4:46 PM CST	Unrated	Hale	0.1	20
March 13	5:02 PM CST	Unrated	Armstrong	3.1	800
March 13	5:08 PM CST	Unrated	Briscoe	0.1	20
March 13	5:48 PM CST	EF2	Donley	13.2	1,200	$250,000
March 13	5:51 PM CST	EF0	Donley	0.9	40	$30,000
March 13	7:41 PM CST	Unrated	Hardeman	0.2	50
March 13	8:00 PM CST	Unrated	Hardeman	0.2	30

March 22 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 22	7:44 PM CDT	Unrated	Cottle	0.0	20

March 23 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 23	1:04 AM CDT	EF1	Comal	0.3	250			$100,000

March 24 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 24	7:03 PM CDT	Unrated	Hamilton	0.9	50
March 24	7:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Bosque	0.5	50

March 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 27	6:06 PM CDT	EF2	Cherokee	20.5	500			$75,000
March 27	6:58 PM CDT	EF2	Rusk	22.3	300		1	$260,000
March 27	7:38 PM CDT	EF2	Panola	15.8	1,600	1	3	$1.5 million

April 23 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 23	5:22 PM CDT	Unrated	Hall	0.7	50
April 23	5:43 PM CDT	Unrated	Hardeman	2.8	50	$1,000
April 23	5:54 PM CDT	Unrated	Hardeman	0.2	30
April 23	6:08 PM CDT	Unrated	Hardeman	1.8	50
April 23	6:10 PM CDT	EF2	Wilbarger	6.4	400	$75,000
April 23	6:34 PM CDT	EF1	Wilbarger	3.2	300	$50,000

April 27 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 27	3:49 PM CDT	EF3	Knox	8.4	400	$70,000
April 27	7:19 PM CDT	Unrated	Wilbarger	0.2	30
April 27	7:47 PM CDT	EF0	Scurry	2.6	50

April 28 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 28	7:33 PM CDT	EF1	Medina	1.8	600			$500,000

May 3 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
May 3	6:02 PM CDT	EF0	Hood	0.4	50		$500
May 3	7:10 PM CDT	Unrated	Hill	0.0	25
May 3	7:18 PM CDT	EF2	Hill	3.4	150		$350,000
May 3	7:41 PM CDT	EF0	Collin	0.5	50		$500
May 3	8:00 PM CDT	EF0	Johnson	0.2	50		$500
May 3	8:43 PM CDT	EF2	Ellis	5.4	659	8	$1.5 million

May 7 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 7	6:40 PM CDT	EF0	Gray	3.3	25

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	6:24 PM CDT	EF0	Walker	0.6	50			$30,000

May 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 11	2:10 PM CDT	EF0	Houston	0.0	20
May 11	6:14 PM CDT	EF1	Liberty	0.3	100			$300,000

May 16 8 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 16	11:14 AM CDT	EF0	Bell	1.9	50	$50,000
May 16	1:42 PM CDT	Unrated	Ellis	2.3	50
May 16	2:00 PM CDT	EF0	Dallas	0.3	30	$2,000
May 16	2:08 PM CDT	Unrated	Ellis	0.9	50
May 16	2:10 PM CDT	EF1	Dallas	0.6	90	$50,000
May 16	3:14 PM CDT	Unrated	Ellis	0.6	50
May 16	7:40 PM CDT	Unrated	Lamb	1.0	50
May 16	10:46 PM CDT	EF0	Haskell	0.1	130	$100,000

May 17 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 17	6:35 PM CDT	Unrated	Oldham	0.9	20
May 17	7:11 PM CDT	EF2	Sterling	11.4	1,056
May 17	7:50 PM CDT	Unrated	Hockley	0.4	30

May 18 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 18	4:54 PM CDT	EF1	Lavaca	1.6	150	$20,000
May 18	6:03 PM CDT	EF0	Dawson	0.1	50
May 18	6:42 PM CDT	EF1	Fayette	3.3	400	$100,000
May 18	9:16 PM CDT	EF0	Scurry	0.0	50

May 20 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 20	3:25 PM CDT	EF1	Angelina	2.6	75			$30,000
May 20	4:38 PM CDT	Unrated	Harrison	0.1	10

May 26 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 26	5:56 PM CDT	Unrated	Hansford	1.9	20
May 26	6:14 PM CDT	Unrated	Hansford	0.8	20
May 26	7:34 PM CDT	Unrated	Ochiltree	1.3	20
May 26	8:14 PM CDT	EF0	Ochiltree	0.9	20
May 26	9:32 PM CDT	Unrated	Hale	1.0	30

May 28 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 28	2:54 PM CDT	Unrated	Brewster	1.1	50
May 28	7:31 PM CDT	EF0	Bastrop	1.4	50			$5,000

May 30 6 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)
May 30	6:13 PM CDT	Unrated	Dallam	0.8	100
May 30	6:19 PM CDT	Unrated	Dallam	0.3	50
May 30	6:21 PM CDT	Unrated	Dallam	0.3	25
May 30	6:46 PM CDT	Unrated	Dallam	0.5	100
May 30	7:30 PM CDT	Unrated	Sherman	1.2	100
May 30	7:43 PM CDT	EF0	Sherman	4.6	150

May 31 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 31	3:21 PM CDT	Unrated	Pecos	6.3	50
May 31	3:39 PM CDT	Unrated	Pecos	3.3	50

June 8 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
June 8	9:11 AM CDT	EF0	Smith	1.6	40	$5,000
June 8	10:02 AM CDT	EF0	Cherokee	0.3	20	$1,000
June 8	10:23 AM CDT	EF0	Cherokee	0.1	20	$5,000

June 25 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 25	7:01 PM CDT	EF1	Gray	2.2	40			$100,000

June 27 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 27	8:54 PM CDT	Unrated	Hockley	0.0	30

July 20 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
July 20	5:00 PM CDT	EF0	San Patricio	0.0	20

August 2 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 2	6:35 PM CDT	EF0	Galveston	0.7	20

August 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
August 12	4:32 PM CDT	EF0	Harris	0.3	10			$5,000

October 27 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
October 27	8:50 AM CDT	EF0	Montgomery	0.0	20		$500
October 27	8:54 AM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	0.3	100		$150,000
October 27	9:33 AM CDT	EF2	Orange	2.1	50		$2.0 million
October 27	9:45 AM CDT	EF2	Orange	6.9	100	1	$3.9 million

November 11 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 11	12:40 AM CST	EF0	Harrison	0.6	50			$1,000
November 11	12:51 AM CST	EF0	Harrison	2.6	50

December 18 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
December 18	10:47 AM CST	EF1	Montgomery	1.6	100			$200,000

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.