EF2 tornado in Jones County, Texas

This tornado damaged the Robertson and Middleton Maximum Security Units near Hamby. It damaged or destroyed about 100 vehicles in the parking lot and it tossed or rolled one of them about 300 yards into a nearby lake. It also destroyed a garage of a nearby home and removed the metal roof. The tornado removed some A/C units from the roof of the Units and tore up some fencing. The tornado damaged the guard's house near the entrance to the units. The tornado continued on a northeast track into Shackelford County.

A cold front interacting with an upper level disturbance and plenty of moisture triggered a supercell just northwest of Throckmorton on March 17. Stormchasers videtoped a brief tornado touchdown just northwest of Throckmorton.

By the afternoon of March 18 into the early morning hours of March 19, a strong upper level low pressure system moved northeast across the Panhandle. Plenty of wind shear and instability interacted with a dryline, copious gulf moisture and triggered an isolated discrete supercell. This tornadic supercell produced at least three tornadoes from southeast Nolan County to Taylor, Jones and Shackelford Counties. Two of the tornadoes were EF-2 at times and did extension damage along its track across four counties.