Unrated tornado, Ft Stockton, Texas, June 22, 2026

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, as surveyed

Unrated, preliminary

Date

June 22, 2026

Touchdown

3:05 PM CDT (20:05 UTC)

Lifted

3:15 PM CDT (20:15 UTC)

On the ground

10 minutes

Path length

2.2 miles (3.5 km)

Path width

0 yards (0 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Pecos County

Touchdown point

30.630, -102.580

Lift-off point

30.600, -102.590

Surveyed by

NWS MAF

The office's name for it

Rural Pecos County Tornado

Survey last edited

June 23, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

Damage indicators were present along the path, but no damage was found.

Written by NWS MAF in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

2 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS MAF, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EFU.

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

An outflow-reinforced front moved into the area during the morning of June 22nd, and a dryline set up over west Texas. These features, combined with lift from a disturbance in the upper-level flow, yield thunderstorm development during the afternoon. One storm in rural Pecos County interacted with remnant surface vorticity from the decaying boundary and managed to produce a weak tornado. Another storm moved through Midland and produced up to ping-pong ball sized hail.

Park employees travelling on I-10 sent in a picture of a tornado in rural portions of Pecos County south of I-10. Other pictures from county EMS and from a nearby gas plant were received shortly after. The tornado tracked near the gas plant and a pipeline construction site. However, despite the presence of potential damage indicators, Pecos County emergency management was unable to find any damage or a damage path. The tornado was rated EF-U. The approximate track, tornado width, and time of occurrence are estimated from radar.

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

No tornado warning for this county appears in the archive as in force at the moment the tornado touched down.

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 General Thunderstorms Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 19:57 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.

Fort Stockton (FST), 46 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Midland/Odessa radar (KMAF), 152 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 20:06 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 2026 tornado in TexasEvery tornado in Texas since 1950Warnings in force in Texas nowThe forecast where you are

20 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.