Unrated tornado, Sundown to Arnett, Texas, June 6, 2025

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mph

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. 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.

7. Unratedthis tornado

   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.

Rating

Unrated

Date

June 6, 2025

Touchdown

7:04 PM CDT (00:04 UTC)

Path length

0.0 miles (0.0 km)

Path width

30 yards (27 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Hockley County

Touchdown point

33.463, -102.507

Lift-off point

33.463, -102.507

Record number

2506061804-01

A second consecutive day of severe thunderstorms affected the South Plains and Rolling Plains of West Texas but saw increased coverage on the sixth. Strong moisture was still in place across the area and with increasing surface heating, ample instability was available for explosive supercell thunderstorm development. A lingering thunderstorm outflow boundary, from early morning convection in the Texas Panhandle, sagged southward through the day. Thunderstorms initially developed along this feature across the central South Plains and quickly became severe. The scattered nature of convective initiation allowed some areas to see repeated rounds of severe thunderstorms. One supercell thunderstorm that tracked across Hockley County produced at least three known tornadoes. However, these tornadoes only briefly touched down causing no known damage. This same thunderstorm would go on to produce giant hail up to 3.25 inches and an 80 mph wind gust in Lynn County. Additionally, a minor heat burst occurred near Silverton (Briscoe County) with trailing stratiform precipitation. Strong outflow winds well out ahead of thunderstorm also produced high wind gusts.||High wind gusts from the Texas Tech University West Texas mesonet are listed below:||63 mph at Silverton (Briscoe County),|61 mph at Turkey (Hall County), and|61 mph at Graham (Garza County).

A storm chaser reported a brief tornado in an open field north of Sundown.

A storm chaser reported a brief tornado in an open field east of Sundown.

A trained weather spotter reported a brief tornado in an open field west of Ropesville.

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

15 minutes of warning. NWS LUB issued a tornado warning for this county at 23:49 UTC, 15 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 00:30 UTC.

The county was under a tornado watch, issued at 21:54 UTC and running to 04:00 UTC.

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 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 19:59 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.

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.

The Lubbock radar (KLBB), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:01 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.

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

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

The live radar over the trackEvery 2025 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

24 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.