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Tornado in Hale County, Texas

Tornado May 22, 2026 · Hale County, Texas

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Not rated

0.4 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Numerous storm chasers reported a short lived dusty tornado just west of Interstate 27 north of Abernathy. The tornado remained in an open field and caused no known damage.

The wider storm

Scattered thunderstorms developed ahead of a dryline and cold front on the afternoon of the 22nd. Storms were initially transient and struggled to become organized due to a lack of deep layer shear across the region. However, numerous outflow boundary formed which initiated new convection and were able to take advantage of a moist and unstable atmosphere. Hail as large as tennis balls were observed in Hale County. The numerous outflow boundaries created enough shear to generate several landspout tornadoes across the area. None of the many landspout tornadoes caused any known damage. Additionally, merging storms in southeastern Hale County produced torrential rainfall which led to flash flooding of roads and fields north of Petersburg.

Began near Alley (33.9296, -101.8634).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1330512. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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