EF1 tornado, Hilton, Texas, June 8, 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 mphthis tornado

   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. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 8, 2025

Touchdown

9:39 PM CDT (02:39 UTC)

Lifted

9:45 PM CDT (02:45 UTC)

On the ground

6 minutes

Path length

4.0 miles (6.4 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$50,000

County

Grayson County

Touchdown point

33.577, -96.680

Lift-off point

33.552, -96.617

Record number

2506082039-01

32 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS FWD, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 95 mph.

• Considerable tree damage in this area with a reported funnel. Lines up with circulation on radar. Tree on a house in this area, too.
• Numerous snapped and uprooted trees blocking the driveway.

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

A highly unstable and strongly sheared environment set the stage for an evening of severe weather, as a line of thunderstorms pushed south from the Southern Plains into North Texas on June 8. Widespread wind damage, scattered large hail reports and a few tornadoes occurred as storms continued south overnight into the early morning hours of June 9.

An EF-1 tornado touched down along Rockport Road and moved southeast across Ford Road, blowing down several trees and damaging a few barns. Much more extensive tree damage was noted along Farmington Road where dozens of trees were snapped and uprooted in all directions. A few more trees were blown down along Shepherd Drive and a trailer was blown onto its side in the western parking lot of the Texas Instruments plant before the tornado lifted. Maximum winds with this tornado were estimated at 95 mph.

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

0 minutes of warning. NWS FWD issued a tornado warning for this county at 02:39 UTC, 0 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 03:15 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 01:34 UTC and running to 05:09 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 Moderate Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 00:46 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 Dallas/Ft Worth radar (KFWS), 126 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 02:40 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

7 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.