Strong Wind — Hockley, Texas

2025-05-29 · Hockley, Texas

Event narrative

LANDSPOUT. Location: 33.559N/102.381W. A video on social media showed a brief landspout tornado over an open field.

Wider weather episode

On the afternoon of the 29th, a cold front was slowly sagging southward across the South Plains of West Texas. Very cool temperatures were observed north of the front, however, south of the front, a very moist and warm atmosphere existed. As thunderstorms initially developed over Hockley County, several landspout tornadoes were observed in vicinity of the southward moving cold front. Despite minimal large scale ascent, thunderstorms were able to rapidly intensity underneath a very unstable atmosphere. Hail became as large as 3.50 inches in diameter with these thunderstorms over Terry County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1254561. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.