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Storm reports for December 25, 2012

NOAA recorded 5 hail reports, 76 wind reports and 33 tornado reports in 5 states on December 25, 2012.

in 5 states
114
Storm reports
About 52 miles from Tyler, TX
1.0 in
Largest hail
About 21 miles from Mobile, AL
81 mph
Highest gust
Highest rating EF3, about 58 miles from Conroe, TX
33
Tornado reports
Sources: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center reports; damage surveys from the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit

Hail, inches

  • 0.75
  • 1
  • 1.5
  • 2
  • 2.5
  • 3+

Dots: reports.

  • Wind report
  • Tornado and its path
  • Surveyed tornado path

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center, final severe weather database (from NOAA's Storm Data). Report day: 12:00 UTC on December 25, 2012 to 12:00 UTC the next day. Times are Central.

Select a dot or a path for the report. NWS survey teams walked the shaded paths after the storm; each is drawn at the widest width they found, so it can look wider than the damage at any one spot.

What happened

At about 9:05 AM CST on Christmas Day, an EF3 tornado hit Houston County, Texas, with its worst damage along Highway 287 one mile north of Pennington, and several homes and trailers along its path had EF1 to EF2 damage.1 That afternoon in Mississippi, a tornado touched down near McNeil in Pearl River County around 3:10 PM CST and tracked 61 miles northeast to Greene County, with EF3 winds near 140 mph at its strongest.2,3 County officials' early count in Pearl River County was 22 homes destroyed and 8 with major damage, and eight people were taken to hospitals.2 NOAA's Storm Events Database lists $2.5 million in property damage in Pearl River County.2 At 4:54 PM CST, an EF2 tornado touched down in Mobile, Alabama, and tracked about 5 miles north into Prichard, damaging several commercial buildings and the roofs of numerous homes.4 NOAA lists $1.35 million in property damage from that tornado.4

Around 12:48 PM CST, storm winds damaged several structures in the Vidor, Texas, area, including roofs on apartment and retail buildings, with one roof torn off, and mobile homes in a nearby park.5 NOAA lists $750,000 in property damage in the Vidor area.5

Sources

  1. 1. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 426570, tornado, Houston County, Texas
  2. 2. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 423982, tornado, Pearl River County, Mississippi
  3. 3. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 420570, tornado, Forrest County, Mississippi
  4. 4. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 422348, tornado, Mobile County, Alabama
  5. 5. NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database: Storm Events Database: Event 421137, thunderstorm wind, Orange County, Texas

Reports by hour

Hail5, most at 8 AM

Wind76, most at 2 PM

Tornado33, most at 3 PM

Reports per hour, Central time. Each row has its own scale.

Every report

Source: NOAA/NWS Storm Prediction Center.

TimeRatingWherePath
9:05 AMEF3About 58 miles from Conroe, TX9.72 mi long, 300 yd wide
9:40 AMEF0Near 31.21, -95.20, TX0.3 mi long, 30 yd wide
12:15 PMEF0Near 31.22, -93.13, LA0.24 mi long, 50 yd wide
12:43 PMEF0About 54 miles from Lake Charles, LA2.19 mi long, 200 yd wide
12:45 PMEF2Near 31.36, -92.49, LA4.62 mi long, 500 yd wide
12:50 PMEF2Near 31.30, -92.45, LA0.77 mi long, 200 yd wide
1:19 PMEF1Near 31.50, -91.91, LA2.55 mi long, 300 yd wide
2:31 PMEF1About 44 miles from Baton Rouge, LA2.75 mi long, 250 yd wide
3:15 PMEF1Near 32.02, -87.87, AL4.7 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:20 PMEF3About 26 miles from Slidell, LA24.05 mi long, 175 yd wide
3:31 PMEF0About 50 miles from Crestview, FL0.01 mi long, 10 yd wide
3:35 PMEF2About 55 miles from Jackson, MS8.37 mi long, 440 yd wide
Show all 33 tornado reports
TimeRatingWherePath
3:45 PMEF2About 33 miles from Gulfport, MS8.03 mi long, 100 yd wide
3:55 PMEF2About 35 miles from Gulfport, MS28.64 mi long, 300 yd wide
4:09 PMEF1Near 31.47, -89.03, MS1.21 mi long, 100 yd wide
4:21 PMEF0About 43 miles from Montgomery, AL0.18 mi long, 50 yd wide
4:28 PMEF0About 38 miles from Montgomery, AL0.07 mi long, 20 yd wide
4:35 PMEF0Near 32.23, -88.72, MS2.26 mi long, 50 yd wide
4:45 PMEF2Near 32.06, -88.35, AL5.91 mi long, 880 yd wide
4:54 PMEF2In Mobile, AL5.15 mi long, 200 yd wide
5:27 PMEF1About 59 miles from Montgomery, AL5.41 mi long, 300 yd wide
5:50 PMEF1About 55 miles from Tuscaloosa, AL5.89 mi long, 500 yd wide
5:53 PMEF1About 38 miles from Mobile, AL2.18 mi long, 110 yd wide
6:00 PMEF2Near 31.62, -87.87, AL24.84 mi long, 150 yd wide
6:05 PMEF0About 55 miles from Crestview, FL13.87 mi long, 25 yd wide
6:20 PMEF0About 16 miles from New Orleans, LA0.8 mi long, 25 yd wide
6:36 PMEF1Near 31.83, -87.52, AL5.01 mi long, 80 yd wide
7:22 PMEF1About 20 miles from Mobile, AL6.65 mi long, 100 yd wide
8:09 PMEF1About 40 miles from Montgomery, AL2.03 mi long, 300 yd wide
8:26 PMEF0About 28 miles from Montgomery, AL0.62 mi long, 75 yd wide
8:32 PMEF2About 22 miles from Montgomery, AL9.55 mi long, 900 yd wide
10:24 PMEF2About 44 miles from Montgomery, AL15.7 mi long, 600 yd wide
10:29 PMEF1About 13 miles from Montgomery, AL0.72 mi long, 100 yd wide

By state

StateReportsHailWindTornado
Alabama3921918
Mississippi290227
Louisiana260206
Texas193142
Florida1010

Cities with reports nearby

Reports within 15 miles of the center of each city we track.

CityLargest hailHighest gustTornado reports
Baton Rouge, LANone64 mph0
Beaumont, TXNone58 mph0
Daphne, ALNoneNone1
Houston, TXNone60 mph0
Jackson, MSNone72 mph0
Lafayette, LANone58 mph0
Mobile, ALNone70 mph1
Montgomery, ALNone69 mph1
Tuscaloosa, ALNone58 mph0

Reports are what observers recorded near a location, not a complete record of every storm. They don’t describe conditions at any building.